{"id":68776,"date":"2026-08-10T07:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/68776\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:19:12","slug":"second-pacific-national-train-investigation-weeks-after-runaway-train-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/68776\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Pacific National train investigation weeks after runaway train incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coal train has derailed in the NSW Upper Hunter less than two weeks after a runaway unmanned train operated by the same company reached 90 kilometres per hour. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) confirmed it was notified about an incident just before midday.<\/p>\n

ARTC was advised the lead wheel, or bogie, of the Pacific National coal train derailed at Ardglen Loop, a stretch of track between the Upper Hunter and Tamworth.<\/p>\n

Pacific National has confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n

“The incident occurred on the Ardglen loop and has resulted in disruption to rail traffic through the area,” a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“There have been no reports of injuries to the train crew.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The train derailed at Ardglen just before midday on Monday. (ABC News: Peter Sanders)<\/p>\n

“The train has been secured and our teams are responding to the incident.”<\/p>\n

ARTC said the site had been “preserved” pending the arrival of investigators from the Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR).<\/p>\n

The derailment comes three weeks after\u00a0an incident involving an unmanned Pacific National train travelling up to 90km\/h over 20 kilometres<\/a> without a driver on board.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

The train started moving unmanned before it was stopped several kilometres away. (ABC Upper Hunter: Courtney Yeandle)<\/p>\n

An interim report found the three locomotives and 96 wagons reached speeds well over the safe limit on July 25, and only came to a halt after rolling backwards for 5 kilometres.<\/p>\n

Last week ONRSR updated its advice about reporting requirements<\/a> for rail transport operators.<\/p>\n

It said “a notifiable occurrence means an accident or incident associated with railway operations that must be reported to ONRSR”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coal train has derailed in the NSW Upper Hunter less than two weeks after a runaway unmanned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10761,90632,22,90631,21,9884,90630,12243,62497,62495,81319,2737],"class_list":["post-68776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-accident","tag-ardglen","tag-au","tag-australian-rail-track-corporation","tag-austrlia","tag-coal","tag-derail","tag-incident","tag-onrsr","tag-pacific-national","tag-runaway","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}