🚊 Widespread Delays Hit Sydney Train Network

Commuters are being urged to avoid the train network this morning after an overhead power failure near Homebush caused widespread disruption across Sydney’s rail system.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gem.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Nation had to be stuck on a train. I follow
those people yesterday. You're stuck on the train. It's not
like the old days when you pry the doors up
and you just walk out.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Well, there were electrical issues, so it wasn't a safe
place to be three hours on the way into work.
It's one thing which you think, oh, well, you know
that's my day gone on the way home.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
That's a very that's that's a terrifying thing. I reckon.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
You've got kids, you have to pick up, you've got
meals to prepare, you've got stuff and stuff and stuff.
And to be stuck and going to the toilet three hours,
I wouldn't make it. And then there's a TV camera
filming you're coming off only giant we stains. Even on
the news last night they said, and you know everyone
was rushing to the loo. Then everyone had to try
and get ubers. What a mess. And they're saying that

(00:44):
the trains are still a mess this morning. Not all
services are back. If you don't have to take the
train today, just don't.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Don't do it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
They'd be filming you and say, were you stuck on
the train.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, no, I'm just walking past. That's just my life.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I will get you through it though,