{"id":479029,"date":"2026-06-15T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:45:08","slug":"trespassers-in-tunnel-halt-trains-between-wellington-and-porirua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/479029\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trespassers in tunnel\u2019 halt trains between Wellington and Porirua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">An alert about 8.15am advised clearance had since been received to continue services, but that passengers should expect delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">One passenger, who did not want to be named, said he was on the train this morning when the service was stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was announced that there are trespassers in the tunnel,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTrains are running between Waikanae and Porirua and back again. Lots of folks will [work from home] if they can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">The man said the train manager did \u201can excellent job\u201d with the little information he had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt least no one has been killed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">The impact of the cancellations is hitting other commuters, with those who would normally be catching the buses getting left out in the cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">One woman trying to travel in from Johnsonville said at least two buses she was trying to catch had skipped her bus stop, driving past with full loads of travellers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PExwGCGfAPLnCMYI\" style=\"display:none\">Metlink has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alert about 8.15am advised clearance had since been received to continue services, but that passengers should expect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,95,1558,8843,5432,65838,11583,305,78,1304,111,43,139,69,29462,9636,1961,38485,241097,36199,52,3608],"class_list":["post-479029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-and","tag-been","tag-believed","tag-between","tag-halt","tag-halted","tag-have","tag-in","tag-morning","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-porirua","tag-spotted","tag-this","tag-trains","tag-trespassers","tag-tunnel","tag-wellington","tag-were"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}