Investigators are looking into whether speed was a factor in the fatal derailment of a passenger train 50 kilometres north of Melbourne.
John Kennedy, 54 and his pilot a 49-year-old Victorian man died when their XPT came off the tracks on a journey from Sydney.
The train carrying 160 passengers was meant to slow down to 15 kilometres to divert through a crossing loop at Wallan before it derailed. Four carriages shot at least 10 metres off their normal trajectory and eleven passengers were injured. A preliminary report will be released in one month. Image: Twitter/ Rickard_Scott
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