Australia news live: Sydney braces for storm cleanup and more train disruption;
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As people start planning their journeys – or maybe just starting planning a WFH day – here’s our overnight report on the Sydney Trains chaos. Our reporter Mostafa Rachwani is out and about and will be bringing us some updates on the train situation very soon.
But in the meantime, this is the statement from Sydney Trains last night warning about disruption today. All suburban and Intercity trains will return to their stabling yards by midnight to help Sydney Trains manage the ongoing severe impacts of today’s industrial action, as this evening’s severe weather also takes out more services across the network.
The decision has been taken to assist the return of the fleet wherever possible, to be ready to run from their home stabling yards on Thursday morning. It means train services will progressively reduce frequency from around 9:00pm to ensure all trains would be in their assigned locations before the last service, which typically ends at 1:00am each weekday.
Sydney Trains is forecasting another heavily degraded day on the network from early Thursday when passengers will again face lengthy delays, service cancellations and large service gaps as a result of over 350 bans that have been notified. Passengers should also be aware that tonight’s wild storms have caused trees to fall on overhead wiring at Normanhurst and Bell, and caused power outages at Lidcombe, Cabramatta and Flemington, multiple signal/track failures at Shellharbour Junction and flooding at Town Hall, which have all had varied impacts to services.
