AUST: Environmentalists force way onto coal trains

• More than a dozen environmental activists have broken through the security fence at a coal terminal at Newcastle, north of Sydney.

Police shut down the train lines at the Carrington coal terminal in Newcastle before 10:00am this morning.

More than 1,200 protesters have rallied at the site calling for urgent action on climate change.

Just before 1:00pm, 13 protesters broke through the security fence to the train line and climbed on top of the coal carriages.

They hung a banner that read "this is real action on climate change".

One protester started throwing coal from the top of the carriage while the crowd cheered.

Climate Action protest organiser Georgina Wood says it is time to end the world's addiction to coal.

Police are trying to remove the protesters from the train tracks.

There have been at least seven arrests so far.