Auckland commuters making their way into the city by train are facing severe disruption with cancellations on four major lines.<\/p>\n
Southern and eastern line services between \u014ct\u0101huhu and Britomart have been cancelled with no word on when they’ll be restored.<\/p>\n
Services on the western and Onehunga line have also been cancelled.<\/p>\n
The swathe of cancellations across the city’s network was caused by an outage on overhead power lines, after KiwiRail overhead electrical arcing between powerlines in the Newmarket area.<\/p>\n
KiwiRail said the problem began at 4am when the electrical arcing was discovered.<\/p>\n
For safety reasons, power to the overhead lines had to be turned off between Penrose, Swanson and Britomart, the rail network operator said.<\/p>\n
That meant electric commuter trains could not operate.<\/p>\n
“Our technicians have been on site this morning and have assessed and repaired a fault. We are aiming for the power to be switched back on shortly, so that train services can resume,” the statement at 8.15am said<\/p>\n
The first trains were running again shortly before 9am, with the Papakura to Britomart at 08.36am, Britomart to Papakura (8.42am) Britomart to Swanson (8.44am) and Swanson to Britomart (9.02am).<\/p>\n
Source: RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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