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BHP Iron Ore Company has set a new world record of heavy traffic, missing a train length of 7, 3 km from the Yandi mine to port Hedland, Pilbara region in Western Australia. Train a total weight of 99,734 tonnes consisted of 682 wagons loaded with 82 thousand. Tons of iron ore and eight locomotives. The section of the line length of 275 km Mount Newman (its length is 426 km) train led one mashinist.

The flight was interrupted for 4 hours and 40 minutes due to a defective coupling gap on the rise Chichester Ranges. After repairing the remaining 1 km to the top of the train passed with two additional locomotives. On the rest of the way there were no problems. The total running time was 10 hours 4 min.

Source: mirfactov.com/