Sydney-to-Melbourne train details near Wallan, north of Melbourne

One of the dead is believed to be the driver, another passenger is being flown to Melbourne and Ambulance Victoria said in a statement that a large number of people were being assessed but were not believed to be seriously injured.

It is unclear how the train derailed, but VLine had warned earlier on Thursday that the service to Albury was delayed by up to an hour because of an ongoing rail equipment fault near Wallan.The train was going about three-quarters speed, according to passenger Rob Jennings. Mr Jennings said he believed one person had been badly injured, but most people had bumps and bruises.One man on scene said train staff and more able-bodied passengers were helping those with minor injuries off the damaged carriages while others ran to try and free the driver.

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paulsakkal Sped up for lost time.. if you stupid Sydney people weren’t always complaining about trains being delayed this shit wouldn’t Have happened.

paulsakkal I remember catching one of these on a school excursion. IN 1982!!!!

paulsakkal OH yeah.. that's right.. 75 million went to Space Agency..and only 2 million went to a vaccine cure for Corona Virus.. so umm...yep.. that's it.

paulsakkal Australia deserves better than this.. we are living 4th world.. Where are the days, Australia had infrastructure as good as any other modern city...like Japan and France. etc..

paulsakkal The first time I rode this train 20 years ago, I knew that one day, at the speed it travels.. something disastrous would happen. It's so fast it's uncomfortable. The level crossings go by at a blink of an eye.. it's that fast. If it needed upgrading, it should have happened.

paulsakkal These carriages were never designed to travel at modern day speeds. I used this service four weeks ago, and the journey was one of the rougest Rail rides I have ever had. No seat belts fitted either.

luciemorrismarr paulsakkal God Bless 🙏

paulsakkal XPT trains are 40 years old and doing speeds like them is stupid, the Gov needs to look into funding for the future of national rail travel instead of opening a worthless Australian Space Agency

paulsakkal 12/83 from 208 followers. Call me a Wanker or mathematician, or ignore the clear public sentiment. Either way. People want the Murdoch crime family investigated. AusFedPolice 4corners abc730 theprojecttv mjrowland68 Politics_SMHAGE GuardianAus paulwkennedy QandA

paulsakkal These trains are far too old and it was bound to happen. Australia’s transport systems are out of date and untrustworthy!

mandyhoskin1 paulsakkal We were on it 2 days ago. They were having signal problems as per usual all the way...XPT needs replacing with a maglev train! Yay! Don’t care how much it costs and goes to Canberra ... auspol springst

paulsakkal Meanwhile.........

paulsakkal Looks like the tracks were really bent?

paulsakkal I travelled on that train for a year morning and night in 2004/5. It seemed to travel too fast.

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