{"id":598393,"date":"2026-09-12T19:52:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598393\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:52:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:52:17","slug":"delays-cancellations-over-fire-on-aucklands-city-rail-link-on-first-day-of-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598393\/","title":{"rendered":"Delays, cancellations over fire on Auckland’s City Rail Link on first day of operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new City Rail Link network in Auckland is facing delays and cancellations due to a fire at the Waitemat\u0101 station, a train manager says.<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency are on site at Waitemat\u0101 Station, where a small fire is understood to have been spotted near the ceiling.<\/p>\n

Auckland Transport chief executive Stacey van der Putten said it may have been caused by an electrical short circuit.<\/p>\n

“Clearance has been given, recovery to open in progress – services will resume and temporarily bypass Waitemata,” she said.<\/p>\n

The fire comes as trains began carrying passengers through the long-awaited City Rail Link network for the first time.<\/p>\n

Auckland’s long-awaited City Rail Link (CRL) opened finally on Sunday morning<\/a>, with the first train hitting the tracks at 4.57am from \u014ct\u0101huhu into the city.<\/p>\n

The $5.5 billion underground rail system, New Zealand’s first, is also the country’s largest transportation infrastructure project and has taken a decade to build.<\/p>\n

The massive project that adds two 3.45km tunnels deep underground that will link Auckland’s existing rail lines into one network and allow the rail system to almost quadruple its capacity.<\/p>\n

It also includes two huge new train stations downtown – Te Waihorotiu and Karanga-a-Hape – and renovations to the Maungawhau and Waitemat\u0101 stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new City Rail Link network in Auckland is facing delays and cancellations due to a fire at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-598393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598393","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=598393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}