{"id":606167,"date":"2026-09-20T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:32:13","slug":"serious-incident-involving-train-at-te-awamutu-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/606167\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious incident involving train at Te Awamutu station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FJPH44WT65BRRCCAHK7OTQIFEE.jpg\" alt=\"Malisha Kumar\" class=\"rounded-full object-cover h-[3.4375rem] w-[3.4375rem] min-w-[3.4375rem]\" data-test-ui=\"author--details__image\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/malisha-kumar\/\" class=\"text-sys-text-dark underline underline-offset-3\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" data-test-ui=\"author--link\" target=\"_blank\">Malisha Kumar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7<\/p>\n<p>20 Sep, 2026 07:37 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<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\">Emergency services are attending a \u201cserious\u201d incident involving a train at the Te Awamutu railway station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Emergency services are attending a serious incident involving a train at Te Awamutu railway station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The incident was reported about 6.20pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Police said there was no ongoing risk and asked members of the public to avoid the railway station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         WorkSafe said it had been notified and an inspector was making<br \/>\n         initial inquiries to understand the circumstances.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vhKyQPSbfZ\" style=\"display:none\">A KiwiRail spokesperson said the rail line around Te Awamutu station was closed following the incident, but no KiwiRail services were currently affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Malisha Kumar Multimedia journalist\u00b7NZ Herald\u00b7 20 Sep, 2026 07:37 AMQuick Read \u200c Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1975,21500,38474,15974,671,29819,111,43,139,69,46868,1238,1321,13655,8690,11685],"class_list":["post-606167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-at","tag-attending","tag-awamutu","tag-emergency","tag-incident","tag-involving","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-railway","tag-serious","tag-services","tag-station","tag-te","tag-train"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606167","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=606167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}