Ooh gosh, am glad it didn’t end up any worse!! Good on the drive for reacting accordingly, hope no one was grumpy about the change of direction!
Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Thursday 13 August 2026
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
New Adventures in Train Travel
This time the train made a quick track change to avoid collision with a slow freight train ( train driver told us personally once we got to the next station and stopped, she was a bit shook up )
we ended up on a different line and going to different stations
that was a 1 hour extra trip
at least no one hurt
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
it would have been a dramatic crash, a very heavy slow moving freight train and an accelerating passenger train. Luckily the train had very few passengers, maybe 2 dozen
once we knew what happened we were all grateful to the driver and happy we were safe
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Yikes! So lucky you were near a shunt point
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 week ago
coming out of Newport rail yard toward Seaholme there are many shunts and sidings
I imagine there will a safety investigation. Why were the signals green? Why was the freight train there?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Gawd that must be rare (and a bit worrying).