MAJOR Sydney Trains Delays & Chaos - Trains Up To 200 Minutes Late!
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- On Saturday, the 20th of January 2024, an incident occurred at Burwood causing trains to be halted, it then escalated quickly to a police operation suspending the entire Inner West mainline! Trains then went up to around 200-300 minutes late before beginning service later that evening.
In this video, we experience these major delays first hand with other incidents occurring causing even more delays! This is a crazy video that you won't want to miss!
Make sure you check out my trainspotting channel - @trainspottingdownunder!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Explanation of what's going on
1:15 My train halted at Central due to a major incident
2:53 Chaos at Redfern station!
4:13 First sign of cancelled trains - Waratah stranded at Redfern!
4:55 First train from the west arrives at Redfern with major crowds
6:18 Staff announcements explaining situation & A brief explanation of what's going on
11:34 More delays + stranded at Redfern on a T4 train due to an incident at Central
14:54 Over-crowding and pure chaos at Town Hall!
15:46 Stuck at Town Hall (again!) due to another incident at Central
16:43 T8 line chaos - platform changes
18:14 Stranded at Green Square due to ANOTHER incident!!
18:55 Overview of the day
19:29 Outro
Copyright - TsetsTransport 2024
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Note: To those attempting to accuse me of being disrespectful of the fact that there was a death, it should have been made quite clear that I had no idea of what exactly happened. Blame the lack of communication, not me. I pay my condolences to the family of this victim at Burwood station. Ending your life is not how you fix life’s problems. I also hope that the driver of the train is okay too, that would be terrible to see something like that.
Thanks for covering that important point mate
My friend was on this train that was involved in the incident and heard the impact... Im thankful she didnt end up witnessing it, would have been a lot to process... I have a family friend as well who was a train driver, now does driver training, instruction, compliance etc, who witnessed a fatality involving another train travelling in the opposite direction a few years ago...
Having struggled with thoughts myself many years ago I can honestly say Im glad to still be here. There is always something or somebody worth sticking around for, ALWAYS. Nothing lasts forever, not even pain. Keep kicking life in the ass, guys
Hi Elliot, in the years of living in Sydney, I don't remember ever experiencing anything like this. It is sad hearing about the person at Burwood losing their life. I remember years ago down here in Melbourne, our trains on the Frankston line were badly disrupted after a work colleague, who I personally knew, lost their life, while attempting to cross a train line and being hit by a passing goods train. On that particular morning, there was very thick fog, which made the situation even worse. Anyway, take care. Rob in Melbourne Australia.
That’s terrible 😞
Glad you enjoyed the video! :)
we've noticed your channel logo, how did you make it? any particular thoughts behind it? we had a few assumptions...
Thanks for your interest. Nothing flash, just Canva. Took about 20 minutes to make, I’ve always had a sketch of a train wheel so I used that and fixed it up a little to make it what it is today. Inspiration came from the look of the Waratah train wheels, as when I was younger I’d always admire what makes the train move so efficiently, therefore why I made it part of my channel logo.
This was a hint all along lol
I can remember train strikes in around 1970 which were pretty horrendous. I thought reliability was much better, until earlier this year. Apparently due to some signal failure on a Wed afternoon the whole network stopped for hours . Not pretty!
Please note that in the Mt Druitt area, we only see the A set and B sets trains.
I think last years communication issue incident is even worse. Trains were delayed for so many minutes. 200, 100, or maybe 300.
I experienced delays as well. I was travelling on the Central Coast to Hawkesbury River two days before this incident happened. We were halted at Hornsby for 10 minutes and were delayed since the Brisbane XPT was in front of us. The main cause of the delays was a broken down freight train at Asquith.
That incident caused the line to be closed in both directions. I was stuck at Berowra for about an hour
i experieence delays 5 minutes
So sad that there are more deaths. Latest one at Macdonaldtown 😢
Bro I swear that every delay sydney has had in the past 5 months always has something to do with burwood
I was stuck at Eastwood on Saturday and I had to catch an uber to my destination.
dang lots of delays can be chaotic
nice video btw
what's the app called when you took the delays of the trains?
Must have been one of the most frustrating commute you've ever had!
Sydney Trains REALLY needs to fix operational issues because it is getting annoying.
What were they supposed to do when someone committed suicide
@@carisi2k11 why does an incident on one line bring the whole network down?
@@kyletopfer7818because those trains go onto other lines
@@nswtransportfilms yes exactly - so the original post was totally correct right?
There was a time at epping Warahtah a31 had to be a an express to fix delays
Chaos at the extreme. You are correct when you say every system will face delays from time to time but Sydney Trains is becoming a joke. I have my theories about it which you already know and I won't repeat here. The problem is the mass removal of crossovers and loops which allowed Trains to be able to change to another line and continue. This is most evident between Summer Hill and Ashfield where it was possible to have Trains overtake the train in front and therefore avoid major delays. A fatality at Burwood should only affect the 2 lines where the incident occurred but there is no facility to crossover these days. Operational reasons is a general term which covers almost every incident. I fear this will get worse before it gets better.
The problem with the Burwood fatality is that four lines were closed. No matter how many crossovers exist at the end of the day, you would have to squeeze six lines of traffic onto two at Burwood and it’s only as strong as the weakest link. Even then, it is possible to put all traffic from the western and northern lines onto the Local at Strathfield and bring them to their correct tracks at central (which they have done multiple times before for various trackwork operations) but there's still a basic capacity problem. Adding to the capacity crunch, the Main Suburban line experienced higher train frequencies on Saturday due to the closure of the Bankstown line.
In terms of them closing four lines, the affected train was on the Up Main with staff using the Down Main. Keeping the other four open would essentially leave no safety margin for any crews working on the Down Main which isn't preferable.
Plus it was an emergency services request to shut all the lines for a while before local was reopened. So with that request it is hard for Sydney Trains to do anything really, especially when they probably didn’t receive a timeline from emergency services of when they could reopen.
@AndrewMarszalek You are ofcourse correct under those circumstances.
Its funny how the delays started at burwood and affected the t4
Wasn’t the fault of Sydney trains on this one.
Mecial Emegency most likely euphamism for suicide on the tracks
if it was Brisbane they would have just cancelled the late service and then say when the cancelled train arrived that the next train came early just to sound good.
Dang i feel bad for the driver that saw everything
Townhall station :( they really ought to rip it apart and restructure it because it has never changed since 1999 when I first when to Sydney and seriously Sydney needs to really deal with this issue :(
I was also affected on Saturday, It was soo annoying waiting at Strathfield for my t9 service! Anyways nice video!
During the midnight that starts the 19th January 2024, I was on a train back from a concert where I go back from Central to Cabramatta. The train I was on was stuck close to Lidcombe for almost an hour due to urgent track repairs. In fact the train even had to reverse back to Flemington so it can arrive into Lidcombe Platform 2 instead of Platform 4. But then the train HAD to be stuck before Platform 2 at Lidcombe because of another train on that same platform stopping there for about 20 minutes. It was infuriating! Makes me even more impatient to see the long overdue Sydney Trains Major Timetable Overhaul happen already!
What about the SHL that has limited train run between Picton to Campbelltown
There was a freight derailment at Mittagong, I was on the first SHL service to be stopped/terminated at Picton that morning. Again not a whole lot Sydney Trains/NSW TrainLink can do to anticipate that.
It took me the Brisbane xpt to get from Gosford to the city
A similar incident happened at stanmore, same exact story. Somebody committing, trains delayed for HOURS. My mum didn’t come home for hours because the trains were so delayed. I honestly feel so bad for everyone in these situations.
Hey mate, i was just wondering what is the app called that you took screenshots of and that track down trains
Anytrip?
@@Woodland26Yes, AnyTrip
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Excellent video 😮- 200mins is ayony I remember that I was at Opmic park so I was try go to godon on a train
I was caught at Central on a T9 service due to depart at 10:20am. Announcements on my train were every 5-10mins, eventually we were told we could get a train from platform 19 to Strathfield and then change. Needless to say by now platform 19 was massively crowded and a train showed up that was mostly empty and filled to crush capacity pretty quickly. All stops to Strathfield and got off there. A CCN train to Wyong was sitting on platform 1 so I managed to get that to Epping. Once at Epping I needed an all stops to get to Cheltenham, after waiting at Epping for about 15mins they announced they had no idea when the next all stops service would arrive. At this point I phoned a friend and got a lift back to Cheltenham.
When we came past Croydon emergency services were still there, this was probably close to midday.
What surprised me is when they had announced several times that emergency services were involved it was safe to assume there was likely someone had been hit by a train. So between the emergency services request to stop services, the track work on some lines and then trains being well out of position for driver changes I don’t think it is particularly fair to criticise Sydney Trains much over this.
Interestingly, this was the second major incident I’d encountered for the day, I had started the day trying to go to Bowral and my train was stopped and terminated at Picton as a freight train ahead of us had derailed at Mittagong, fortunately (given the extremely low frequency service on the Southern Highlands line) there was a train heading back to Sydney from Picton about 15mins later that had just got through before the derailment.
This morning at 7:59 on the T8 line there was an incident at Cabramatta it disrupted the T2 T8 and T3
Services returned to normal at 10:53 am 13/02/24
I was going to wondabyne from Strathfield and trains were originally meant to terminate at central but in stead they were terminated at Strathfield
Due to emergency at Burwood and trains are not running between Strathfield to central
I arrived at Central station in an attempt to travel to Rhodes train station. There was track work on some on the lines, as there has been most weekends for the last 6 months or so. But none on the line I was going to take. There was no announcements and station staff knew nothing. After about 30 minutes an announcement was made stating no services are departing from Central terminal. I gave up waiting and went home. I looked on Reddit once I got home and many users said that there was a man who committed suicide at Burwood at around 10am after jumping in front of a Waratah set train from the Shaftesbury Rd bridge. Reddit user said it happened so fast and unexpectedly that nobody could do anything but close their eyes.
Lucky I didn't go out as I had planned
Gotta hand it to him, intro music was HECTIC🤟🤟
that happan at Auburn norammly no trains stop at platfrom 2 but major incident b12 was terminating telling if going to parramatta or Penrith go on platform 4
I was lucky as I was walking up the stairs at town hall, I saw another train arrive and took that.
Was the Liverpool train via the T2?
In Central could you have used the T8 line to Glenfield and back track to Liverpool?
I have come across someone who also jumped in front of a train. Not a pretty sight in A&E and end result was losing a leg. Also 30+ years ago another incident in Hurstville that caused big delay. I met her probably 5 years after the incident with both above knee amputation. Depression is quite a beast.
I was at Mt Druitt and multiple trains got CANCELLED due to this incident
Oh my god. Saw a T9 service 217m LATE!
1:36. Central is normally busy but it looked like what it did in lockdown P.S. 2:45 noisy train
Man we should start having games on who saw the latest train on the network on the day lol.
oh nooo
There are 6 through tracks at Burwood. Only one needed to be shut down. Whilst every decent person feels empathy for a death in this situation, authorities are over reacting by shutting down all lines, and I suppose we can thank all the rabid lawyers for that. In london recently, I witnessed 5 lanes of a motorway being closed for hours because of a car fire on a hard shoulder. Absolute nonsense! The frustration built up by delays, and the inability of people to get to their destination on time, probably caused another dozen deaths and fatalities?
Far better communication is needed in such events. Also greater priority needs to be placed on getting trains back into service. It should not take hours to deal with this and no investigation is needed just collect the video from the train and stations all the information is there to work out what happened after the event.
Emergency services requested the shutdown and then once everything is back up you’ve got drivers/trains out of position. As someone who was caught up in this Saturday morning I actually think the communication in the trains and platforms was actually pretty decent given they had little chance to plan for it nor know when the lines would partially/fully open through Croydon/Burwood.
It was actually a fatality .
Bummer, that’s unfortunate.. the announcements were a mixture of “medical emergency at Burwood” and “police operation at Burwood” obviously showing Sydney trains usual lack of communication to both staff and passengers.
@tsetstransport It was once a policy to not announce a fatality until the family was notified. The process after a fatality can take many hours to investigate and isolate the train involved at the incident location. The remains can't be moved or removed until the forensics team has arrived and carried out their investigation. The train crew must be relieved immediately, and a replacement crew is found. After the train is removed and the remains taken away a cleaning crew must make sure there is no obvious sign of the fatality before the line is re-opened. The problem during this procedure is the lack of a crossover as stated. This can take up to 10 hours depending on the location of the forensics team and cleaning crew prior to the incident.
Omg not this a again Sydney trains are crazy
This was a big incident! Me and my friend were doing a train trip where we have to travel to a station for each letter of the alphabet, and we were originally going to catch the 10:24 Lithgow service from Central to get to Blacktown, then Quaker's Hill (the only Q station on the network), but our service didn't end up moving. We ended up catching a slow suburban train to Liverpool via Regents Park, getting off at Cabramatta and modifying our route. It vastly jeopardised our plans, and our "speedrun" ended up taking 7 hours instead of our original plan of 4 hours.
Interestingly, I also heard some announcements stating the emergency was at Croydon, though this was a V Set with very mediocre speakers so we could've misheard it. But it was very interesting to experience. My prayers go out to the family of the victim. But I do also hope this helps improve the network and more action is taken to ensure that incidents like this, as well as the ones at Central, can be less common or have their impacts reduced
It was at Croydon, but Burwood is a better known location. Announcements I heard that day cited one or both locations.
Now we know why everyone wants to drive! Too unreliable and to be honest at this point I would have got a taxi despite it being 10 times the cost!
if only the bloody government weren't closing the Bankstown Line so trains can be diverted there
I agree, but what is more of a concern is the lack of crossovers which can allow trains to continue operation by using other lines to get around the incidents, not to mention the usual lack of communication too.
Bankstown Metro provides the required backup. Sydney Trains can divert some trains to Bankstown. Plus terminate trains at Lidcombe, loop around Olympic Park & head back out. Sending passes on a shuttle to Bankstown.
Yesterday's issues weren't helped by driver hours & getting the driver home. Metro avoids this issue. If run properly, similar incident could occur in peak & rail network could recover by 1pm with Bankstown Metro.
@@jules_hams1583As a former Sydney resident who lived in the south along the T4 line. I realized there is a massive flaw with the Metro. I would much rather have it go to Hurstville instead of Bankstown. Here are two very important reasons why
1) We still keep the Bankstown line. At Sydenham there is 6 platforms but 4 are in use. Trying to link the Metro to the Eastern Suburbs parallel tracks would be a challenge without kneecapping the Bankstown line but Reason 2 will make up for it
2) The Metro runs parallel with the Eastern Suburbs and Illawarra line all the way to Hurstville this helps with two things
A) During Rush hours the T4 runs express from Redfern to Hurstville stopping only at Sydenham, Wolli Creek and Hurstville while also running local trains to Hurstville that stop in between. Though I believe some trains terminate at Hurstville as an Express.
B) There is redundancy and consistent frequencies for us residents in South-East Sydney rather than the T4 during rush hours having 3 terminals and horrible frequencies.
The drawbacks and there are some good arguments is that Freight would be affected which would be true and rob some frequencies for T4 services until Sydenham.
The T8 can’t run via Sydenham if there is disruption on the Airport line and can’t run services between Central and Glenfield via Airport and Revesby
But I think we would be better off than what the Bankstown line is experiencing. But you know transparency with whoever is in charge which I’m not surprised.