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Multi-wagon derailment blocks Aurizon's Adelaide-Darwin rail line, with freight being rerouted

A single carriage came off the tracks 60 kilometres south of Tennant Creek. (FreightLink)

The owner of the Adelaide to Darwin rail line says it is working with customers to reroute freight and minimise disruption, after a freight train partially derailed along a single-track section on Thursday morning.

The incident has prompted the Northern Territory's Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (DIPL) to advise people against panic-buying, reassuring people supply of essential supplies would not be impacted.

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