Floodwaters were hampering emergency officials’ efforts to clean up a remote site in northeast Australia where a freight train carrying sulphuric acid derailed a day earlier.

Video footage released by Australian train operator Queensland Rail shows just how easy it is for a baby’s pram to have a dangerous encounter with a high-speed train.

A high-speed train derailed in eastern Australia, injuring more than 120 passengers as its carriages slammed into trees and ploughed through fields alongside the tracks.