Tens of thousands of fans were stuck at Sydney Olympic Park when damage to a critical signal box brought city-bound trains to a halt and sparked lengthy delays.
Minutes after the Matildas suffered a crushing loss to England in the World Cup semi-final on Wednesday night, tens of thousands of spectators at the match were dealt a second blow when damage to a9.53pm:
“Everyone in the crowd was kind of like [groan], here we go. It was mostly just people checking phones, scratching heads, and being like, what are you going on about?” Burgess, 34, said. Police are called to Brown Street in Ashfield, where they’re told cables in a railway signal box have been cut, and equipment damaged. Specialist Sydney Trains engineers are deployed to the site.Sydney Trains issues a further update, saying that “due to vandalism of equipment at Ashfield, some trains are running late, may have changed stops, and journey times may take longer. Work crews are on-site; however, we have no forecast for trains to resume normal running.”11.
“There were zero announcements there as well. Everybody was standing at the information boards, it was totally blocked up. Staff were trying to help, but they just looked like headless chooks too.”
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