True, but while I do not wish to scaremonger until we know more, some derailments can take days before affected train(s) are removed from the site - not always easy - and sleepers that may have been destroyed are replaced and the track relaid with fresh ballast.
With some derailments, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau will decide to send investigators to among other tasks photograph evidence, so train removal and track reconstruction cannot start until ATSB 'releases' the site.
Coal trains can be c.90 coal hopper wagons long and several thousand gross tonnes so they're not just a two car Hunter line railcar used by passengers from Newcastle Interchange to Maitland and Telerah.
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