{"id":267641,"date":"2025-08-16T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267641"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:09:29","slug":"metro-train-derails-around-macauley-near-north-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=267641","title":{"rendered":"Metro Train derails around Macauley near North Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the evening of August 15th, speculation across social media stated a Metro Train had derailed near or about Macauley Railway Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very little has been said but the attached image from Twitter illustrates the shutdown of the Upfield line between Melbourne and Coburg. (why it would need to be shut for such a long length is not certain but probably due to Metro Trains cutbacks on infrastructure)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is believed the train derailed on a set of points leading to the light repair centre a metro facility in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-16_095523290-473x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-267642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-16_095523290-473x1024.png 473w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-16_095523290-139x300.png 139w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-16_095523290-709x1536.png 709w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/image_2025-08-16_095523290.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Buses were called to move passengers between the train service gap with delays of 60 minutes or more for the bus replacements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at the time of publishing this article the line had reopened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second derailment on the Metro Trains Network in nearly a month after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=250958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Metro Train derails at Clifton Hill closing the Hurstbridge and Mernda Lines\">serious derailment at Clifton Hill<\/a> in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buses were called to move passengers between the train service gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":237251,"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":[35,9770,47],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-267641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-metro-trains-melbourne","category-rail-news","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267641","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267699,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267641\/revisions\/267699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}