The Age: Train splits in two after driver told to ignore ‘decoupling’ warning

A peak-hour train split in two with more than a hundred passengers on board last week, after Metro Trains told a driver to ignore warnings that the carriages were about to separate.

In a rare safety incident being probed by rail safety and transport watchdogs, an X’Trapolis train carrying about 150 passengers broke into two parts while travelling to Lilydale early on Friday evening.

Read the full story in The Age here.