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The mangled wreckage of an irresponsible person who was deliberately derailed in Western Australia.
The nearly 3km-long runaway train hurt injured along with BHP's Newman to Port Hedland line for about 50 minutes early on Monday, leaving behind the driver, who had stepped out to inspect one of its 268 wagons.
The locomotive was derailed by staff at a remote control center more than 1500km away in Perth, which diverted to Turner's Siding, about 120km south of the populated port.
Nobody was injured about 1.5km of track was damaged.
Chief executive Andrew Mackenzie praised their quick thinking, saying the train "could have caused a lot of damage" if it had continued in Port Hedland.
He also said that the company was planning investments in its railways and safety "before this accident happened".
A spokeswoman said on Friday the company was confident rail operations, which would have been completely suspended from the derailment, would partially resume early next week.
The company continues to say it can not be speculated on the causes of the incident.
BHP revealed mid-week it did not have enough to be stockpiled at Port Hedland to cover its scheduled shipments, saying it would liaise with customers about its contractual commitments.
The BHP train was partly autonomous.
Rio Tinto made its first delivery of a highly efficient car in the Pilbara region in July, kicking off its $ 940 million AutoHaul program, which is expected to be complete by the end of the year.
It will be the world's first fully autonomous, long-distance, heavy-haul rail network, operating the world's largest and longest robots, Rio Tinto says.
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