{"id":11476,"date":"2024-02-15T17:23:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=11476"},"modified":"2024-02-15T17:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T07:23:18","slug":"widespread-delays-across-sydney-rail-network-spark-peak-hour-commuter-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=11476","title":{"rendered":"Widespread delays across Sydney rail network spark peak hour commuter chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>W\ufeffidespread delays are occurring across the Sydney rail network, sparking chaos for peak-hour commuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sydney Trains has advised passengers to allow extra travel time &#8220;due to an incident requiring emergency services&#8221; at Macdonaldtown Station this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police confirmed there was a fatality at the station earlier today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageresizer.static9.net.au\/shn9omfFfupQiAWcm7-fYZdRgCk=\/0x301:690x689\/500x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fba827482-4913-4589-a809-a88fc0052380\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Widespread delays across Sydney rail network spark peak hour commuter chaos at Central Station.&nbsp;(Supplied)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Affected lines include T1 western line and North Shore line, the T2 inner-west and Leppington line, the T5 Cumberland line, the T3 Bankstown line, the T9 \ufeffnorthern line, the T8 Airport and southern line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Police and emergency services are in attendance,&#8221; Sydney Trains said in an update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Trains are resuming however at reduced speed through the affected area and will not stop at Macdonaldtown.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W\ufeffidespread delays are occurring across the Sydney rail network, sparking chaos for peak-hour commuters. Sydney Trains has advised passengers to allow extra travel time &#8220;due [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":11477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,163],"tags":[2139,4369],"class_list":["post-11476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-rail-industry-news-australia-new-zealand","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-trains"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11476\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}