Train delays ease after urgent track repair sparked Sydney commuter chaos

Urgent track repairs have been completed at Central Station after hours of delays on the T1 North Shore Line and T9 Northern Line.

A piece of the train track near Central Station that has caused urgent track repairs on Monday morning. Picture: Supplied

Urgent track repairs have been completed at Central Station after hours of delays on the T1 North Shore Line and T9 Northern Line.

Flow-on delays are also impacting the T2 Inner West & South Line, the T3 Bankstown Line, and the T8 Airport & South Line.

Additionally, trains on the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line and South Coast Line are also delayed due to an issue with a freight train at Sutherland earlier.

These disruptions are expected to last for several hours before normal services resume.

Commuter chaos has struck passengers at Ashfield Station.

Shuttle trains were running between Wynyard and Hornsby and between Berowra and North Sydney.

The repairs were completed just after 11am.

Sydney Trains said there would be gaps in services throughout the morning.

“Please allow extra travel time due to urgent track repairs at Central,” Sydney Trains earlier said on X.

“Services may be less frequent, trips may take longer than usual and stops may change at short notice.”

Transport for NSW began reporting to passengers at 5:49am that they were conducting ‘urgent track repairs’.

Another day of chaos with Sydney trains, pictured at Strathfield Station. Picture: Leo/X

Travel apps reported that hundreds of services were cancelled on other train lines including the airport, south, inner west, Leppington and Bankstown rail lines.

A shuttle bus service had been established to move passengers between Campbelltown and Macarthur on the airport and south line.

Google Maps reporting that Central railway station is 'busier than usual' at 9:50am.

At Sydney’s busiest western Sydney railway station - Parramatta - four cancelled city express services between 9:18am and 9:40am resulted in passengers boarding an overcrowded four-carriage Blue Mountains train.

Passengers waiting to travel from Chester Hill to the city are being warned that there will be no trains for almost one hour between 9:33am and 10:31am due to cancelled services.

Services impacted on the T9 train line this morning.

Transport for NSW’s apps are reporting cancelled services on some lines stretching into the afternoon.

Google Maps at 9:30am was reporting an abnormally large number of people at railway stations in Parramatta, Campbelltown, Granville, Blacktown, Sydenham, Panania, Padstow, Strathfield, Central and Wolli Creek.

Passengers are being urged to allow extra travel time, listen to announcements and check information displays for service updates.

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Originally published as Train delays ease after urgent track repair sparked Sydney commuter chaos