The driver of a train that derailed in floodwaters near Gympie in February should have been told tracks were underwater more than half an hour before the crash, but critical warnings were never read or passed on, a report has found.
The Aurizon freight train struck the flooded line at Traveston just before 3.30am on February 23, just days before the town of Gympie would be devastated by record-breaking river rises that led to the inundation of hundreds of homes.
