{"id":508248,"date":"2026-07-03T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T17:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T17:37:10","slug":"auckland-southern-line-delays-after-incident-at-homai-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/508248\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Southern Line delays after incident at Homai Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Commuters are facing delays this evening after trespassers climbed the Homai Station safety barriers. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Southern Line commuters are facing hours of disruption after trespassers forced rail services through Homai Station to slow this evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A police spokesperson said they were alerted to people on safety barriers near the Manurewa train line at 5.40pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         Those involved had left the scene by the time officers arrived<br \/>\n         and were unable to be located in the surrounding areas.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"KGVqebHjEg\" style=\"display:none\">Delays are expected to continue until midnight as the network recovers, with Auckland Transport urging commuters to plan their journeys before they travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now \u200c SaveShare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,1975,51,138,29463,16492,22048,19555,9881,679,253255,11551,671,15220,111,139,69,207,1321,23851,171,13655,1961,210,241097],"class_list":["post-508248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-after","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-business","tag-commuters","tag-delays","tag-disruption","tag-evening","tag-facing","tag-forced","tag-homai","tag-hours","tag-incident","tag-line","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-rail","tag-services","tag-slow","tag-southern","tag-station","tag-this","tag-through","tag-trespassers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508248","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=508248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}