{"id":585720,"date":"2026-08-31T08:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T08:48:12","slug":"auckland-western-line-suspended-after-emergency-services-incident-in-new-lynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/585720\/","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Western Line suspended after emergency services incident in New Lynn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">New Lynn Train Station lies between Fruitvale Station and Portage Rd, and passengers reported being stranded on trains nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">One passenger said their \u201cpacked train\u201d had been stuck on the tracks outside New Lynn for about 30 minutes, with \u201cno air con\u201d and little information about when they would be able to get off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Another commuter said they saw the train stopped 100m from New Lynn Train Station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI felt sorry for the people stuck on the train heading west&#8230; we gave up and caught the bus,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Trains were operating only between Waitemat\u0101 and Grafton, with delays and cancellations expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Scheduled buses were accepting rail tickets and passengers were advised to use alternative transport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"TpGGueVENmajZwYgWe\" style=\"display:none\">Fire and Emergency New Zealand and Hato Hone St John referred inquiries to police as the lead agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Lynn Train Station lies between Fruitvale Station and Portage Rd, and passengers reported being stranded on trains&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":585721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,51,1558,17752,15974,19555,305,78,671,15220,23300,117,111,43,139,69,1321,18834,1961,11685,3807,3457],"class_list":["post-585720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-after","tag-auckland","tag-been","tag-disrupted","tag-emergency","tag-evening","tag-have","tag-in","tag-incident","tag-line","tag-lynn","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-services","tag-suspended","tag-this","tag-train","tag-west","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585720","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=585720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}