The trouble-plagued Waratah train project has hit another snag, with a carriage derailing as it was unloaded from a ship at Newcastle Port.
Downer EDI, which is fitting out the trains, says the incident happened when an axle from the last carriage fell off.
A crane lifted the damaged carriage back onto the track late this morning – it’s now at the company’s Cardiff plant.
You get what you pay for …..
The only correct part of this story was that the carriage left the tracks. An axle did not “fall off”, it was a low speed derailment with minimal damage. It was operator error at the port.