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Rachael Ward

Work starts to clear Geelong derailment

Workers have started clearing the wreckage of a train derailment near Geelong amid a union call for Victoria's rail safety rules to be urgently assessed.

Dozens of shipping containers were sent tumbling when carriages from a 1.7 kilometre-long train went off the tracks at Inverleigh early on Monday.

Sixteen of the carriages derailed, blocking the rail corridor between Adelaide and Melbourne.

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