{"id":361955,"date":"2026-02-04T09:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=361955"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:36:32","slug":"commuter-chaos-as-wiring-fault-grounds-train-services-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=361955","title":{"rendered":"Commuter chaos as wiring fault grounds train services in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0commuters have faced major peak hour delays after an overhead power fault forced the suspension of multiple train lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A wiring fault near Armadale led to the suspension of trains on the Cranbourne\/Pakenham line between Caulfield and West Footscray and the Sunbury line about 5pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The suspension was impacting some services running through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=1168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Metro Tunnel\">Metro Tunnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imageresizer.static9.net.au\/1tTvULXFLahLHJ7yy8M5--WvJ1U=\/997x24:2692x1295\/500x0\/https%3A%2F%2Fprod.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fcef36742-2fd8-4929-887f-a861709616e9\" alt=\"Melbourne train chaos\" style=\"width:642px;height:auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Melburnians are facing a long commute home following an overhead equipment fault.&nbsp;(Nine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>By 8pm, the metro line was still facing delays up to 40 minutes with passengers between Hawksburn and Caulfield advised to switch to the Frankston line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers on the Sunbury line were advised to allow an extra half hour as buses replaced trains between West Footscray and Footscray, with delayed trains on to Sunbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"V\/Line\">V\/Line<\/a> services on the Gippsland line were suspended as buses replaced trains between Southern Cross and East Pakenham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers were asked to check station platform displays and allow extra travel time.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wiring fault near Armadale led to the suspension of trains on the Cranbourne\/Pakenham line between Caulfield and West Footscray and the Sunbury line about 5pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":198284,"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":[35,1168,47],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-361955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361955","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=361955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361960,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361955\/revisions\/361960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}