Sydney trains hit by widespread delays and cancellations on election night

Sydney’s bid web has again been deed by work disruptions with trains not moving connected a fig of lines owed to urgent awesome repairs.

The wide delays and cancellations person prompted Transport for NSW to pass passengers to question different arrangements, peculiarly for anyone travelling to the Rabbitohs v Sea Eagles NRL crippled astatine Olympic Park.

Lines affected see the T1 (western line), T2 (inner westbound and Leppington line), T3 (Bankstown line), T5 (Cumberland line), T8 (airport line) and T9 (northern line) owed to urgent awesome repairs astatine Homebush.

There are flow-on effects passim the web with screens going blank astatine Milsons Point and Central stations.

Passengers voiced vexation connected societal media implicit the obstruction web problems.

Later connected Saturday night, Transport for NSW said trains were moving again betwixt Lidcombe and Ashfield connected the T1 Western and T2 Inner West & Leppington Lines.

“Trains are besides moving again betwixt Rhodes and Ashfield connected the T9 Northern Line.”

“Passengers are inactive advised to let plentifulness of other question time, perceive to announcements, and cheque accusation displays for work updates arsenic stopping patterns whitethorn change.”

Repeated train outages crossed the Sydney network enactment unit connected the Coalition up of the election.

In aboriginal March, the full obstruction web crushed to a halt owed to a communications strategy responsibility for a weekday day forcing commuters to marque their ain mode home.