More than 200m of railway track was torn up when two locomotives and 74 wagons of a loaded coal train derailed some 35km west of Mackay in Central Queensland on Sunday, July 1. Some 8000 tonnes of Norwich Park coal was dumped onto the track.
The line is used by BHP Billiton for transport to its Hay Point terminal and by MIM, Anglo American, and Rio Tinto to Dalrymple Bay.
The derailment stopped deliveries of about 80,000-100,000 tonnes a day of coal to Hay Point. No trains could reach the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal either.
The damage bill could top over $15 million.
