Translink has apologised after rail passengers were left stranded on a platform when a late-night train arrived into a station that was already shut for the night. <\/p>\n
A group of about 30 customers were stuck on the platform at Newry Train Station for more than 45 minutes in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n
One of the passengers, Anne Greer, told BBC News NI it raised safety questions for the public transport company as the customers had no safe way to exit the station. <\/p>\n
Translink said the firm was “looking into the incident” but added its train crew “remained with the passengers to ensure their safety while the issue was resolved”. <\/p>\n
The train was among a number of extra late-night services which are running to and from Belfast during the Fleadh Cheoil na h\u00c9ireann (Music Festival of Ireland).<\/p>\n
It was scheduled to leave Belfast at 23:59 BST on Friday and it arrived in Newry at about 01:20 BST on Saturday. <\/p>\n
“To our surprise the entire station was closed, so we couldn’t exit,” Greer said.<\/p>\n
“So we’re all trapped on the platforms for over 40 minutes.”<\/p>\n
She said the train crew “helped as much as they could, but there was nothing they could do”.<\/p>\n
“They were completely gobsmacked as to why they’ve arrived into a completely closed and locked train station.”<\/p>\n
Greer said she and other passengers tried to contact Translink but they could only find phone numbers for call centres which had also already closed for the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Translink has apologised after rail passengers were left stranded on a platform when a late-night train arrived into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}