The 2026 cane crushing season will commence in June and MSF Sugar would like to remind parents and teachers of the dangers of children playing on or near cane trains and railway tracks.
Cane trains carry very large loads and have limited ability to brake suddenly, and children often don’t realise the danger they put themselves in when they jump on to moving cane trains, play around railway tracks, ride trail bikes along the cane railway and even fish from cane railway bridges.
Occasionally children are seen playing with the track points that guide the train from one track to another or placing objects on the line. This is extremely dangerous as it can cause the train to derail and result in serious injury or death.
Trains operate on our extensive private cane railway network 24 hours per day during the cane crushing season.
Please make your children aware to stay safe and remember:
- Stay away from locomotives and cane bins.
- Don’t play around railway lines.
- Never walk between cane bins.
- Never go on to a cane railway bridge.
- Never walk behind a train – the driver will not see you.
- If you have to cross the railway tracks, STOP and look both ways, LISTEN and only cross when it is safe.
- OBEY Flashing Lights signals and Give Way signage at road crossings.
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