Tyler Patrick Byrne pleaded guilty to derailing the Big Pineapple train during a bucks party

A young man who was separated from his mates during a bucks party decided it was a good idea to go for a ride on the Big Pineapple train. He was wrong.

A man accused of crashing and derailing the Big Pineapple train while on a drunken bucks party has been ordered to pay for any damages to the popular attraction.

Tyler Patrick Byrne, 22, pleaded guilty in Maroochydore Magistrates Court on Thursday to wilful damage and trespassing.

He’d originally been charged with unlawful use of a motor vehicle/aircraft/vessel, driving without a licence and entering a premise and committing an indictable offence after he took the famous train for a joy ride on May 15.

Police prosecutor Mark Burrell told the court on Thursday he was withdrawing those charges before he presented the fresh charges.

Tyler Patrick Byrne, 22, pleaded guilty to wilful damage and trespassing after derailing the Big Pineapple train on May 15. Picture: Aisling Brennan

Sergeant Burrell said Byrne had been on a brewery and winery tour as part of a bucks party when he separated from the group at the Big Pineapple and managed to get himself into the storage shed where the train was kept.

“He’s interfered with the brakes of the train, it’s moved forward (about 200m) then derailed smashing into the fence,” Sergeant Burrell said.

The court heard four carriages of the train came off the tracks, and Byrne had been “ejected” from his seat as it crashed.

Tyler Patrick Byrne crashed the Big Pineapple train on a joy ride.

Sergeant Burrell said he didn’t know how intoxicated Byrne was at the time, but it didn’t excuse his behaviour as he caused $1000 worth of damage to the train.

“It’s not a small amount of damage”, he said.

Byrne, from Coolum, was fined $900 and ordered to pay $1000 in restitution.

No conviction was recorded.