Source: Australian Transport Safety Bureau
An out of gauge wagon on a freight train caused minor damage to five station platforms while travelling from Brisbane to Port Kembla, a recent ATSB investigation has found.
On the morning of 15 June 2020, wagon RKOX4055Y was unloaded at a steel facility south of Brisbane. A forklift operator had trouble unloading one of the three stacks of welded beams from the wagon, with footage from security cameras within BlueScope Steel’s Coopers Plains facility showing a corner of the wagon lifting during the unloading process before dropping back down.
With unloading completed, wagon RKOX4055Y was then shunted and attached to another 52 wagons to form Pacific National train 2BW4 for the journey to Port Kembla. Prior to departing the facility, the train underwent a full train examination and a roll-by inspection with no abnormalities detected.