Train crash not due to mechanical fault

Cranes have removed the wreckage of a derailed passenger train from a station in Brisbane's east. Source: AAP

QUEENSLAND Transport Minister Scott Emerson says preliminary investigations suggest Brisbane's passenger train crash was not the result of a mechanical fault.

Mr Emerson has also asked Australia's transport regulator to run its own inquiry into the spectacular derailment.

Queensland Rail and police are already investigating the cause of the crash, which saw the train run up onto the platform and smash into a toilet block at Cleveland station on Thursday.

Mr Emerson says the train underwent a full inspection on January 9.

"This train had been fully inspected just a matter of weeks ago," he told reporters on Friday.

"There was a routine inspection earlier that day.

"There's no evidence, no indication that there was anything wrong with the train at all, and there were no reports from the driver on the journey from Doomben to Cleveland of any problems with the train."

It was also not the first train on that line that day.

Mr Emerson declined to comment on the actions of the train driver and said he did not want to pre-empt findings.

He also ruled out that it was a slippage.

"Slippages occur often in the system when there's water on the line," Mr Emerson said.

"That occurs probably every week on a train system ... but that has no connection to what happened in Cleveland."

The ATSB's probe is expected to be much quicker than Queensland's emergency services investigation.

Instead of three months, the ATSB will release interim findings within a month, Mr Emerson said.

The wreckage of the train was removed overnight, and work is underway to repair the station, the track and up to 300 metres of overhead wiring.

A woman who was in the toilet block was lucky to have escaped with her life, while passengers on the train suffered only minor injuries.

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