Metlink is working to determine what damaged two carriage windows on a train travelling through Lower Hutt last night.<\/p>\n
The damage occurred on a Wairarapa Line service that left Wellington Station at 5.30pm on Wednesday, with the incident happening as the train passed through Tait\u0101 shortly before 6pm.<\/p>\n
Commuter Richard Mayes told 1News he was sitting in the same carriage, with his back to the two windows, when he heard a “very loud bang”.<\/p>\n
“The outside layers of both windows were smashed like a car windshield.”<\/p>\n
He said the sudden noise and impact left him fearing the worst.<\/p>\n
“I was sure something structural had broken off under the floor and some kind of wild derailment ride was about to begin at any second.”<\/p>\n
Despite the alarming moment, the train continued safely to the next station, where staff secured the damaged windows with duct-tape.<\/p>\n
Mayes praised the crew’s handling of the situation.<\/p>\n
“The train crew were excellent and immediately made sure everyone was safe and that the train could proceed.”<\/p>\n
A Metlink spokesperson confirmed no passengers or staff were injured in the incident, but said the disruption had a knock-on effect for other commuters.<\/p>\n
“The damaged carriage was taken out of service for repairs this morning, causing two subsequent services on the Wairarapa Line to be bus replaced.<\/p>\n
“Metlink is trying to determine the cause of the damage.”<\/p>\n
It was not yet known whether the windows were struck by an object from outside the train, or whether another factor was responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Metlink is working to determine what damaged two carriage windows on a train travelling through Lower Hutt last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,112,52],"class_list":["post-588865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-transport","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588865","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=588865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}