<p>Work has begun to repair damaged rail links that bore the brunt of flooding in South Australia and western New South Wales on Sunday.</p> <p>Australian Rail Track Corp general manager infrastructure and asset management Tim Ryan told <em>Lloyd’s List DCN</em> that the line between Broken Hill and Adelaide, cut at Leigh Creek, should reopen tomorrow.</p> <p>More seriously, the track between Whyalla and Port Augusta, that services One Steel’s output, was hit by “very severe flooding in about seven locations, one of them much worse than the others”, Mr Ryan said.</p> <p>ARTC predicted repairs there would take at least five days.</p> <p>Its main east-west line, cut for 36 hours over the weekend at Port Germaine, was up and running again.</p> <p>South Australian power company Flinders Energy said it would still be able to meet demand, despite being unable to access coal supplies.</p> <p>Crews are working to repair about 1 km of damaged rail line which has blocked the flow of coal to Flinder’s power stations.</p> <p>Pacific National has re-routed 13 of its freight trains through Victoria because of the damage to the Broken Hill line.</p> <br />
