“The incident train where the train had the fault, 205 passengers were held on the train for up to two hours.”
“We managed to get the passengers off by walking them through the loop to Flinders St. There are escape routes in the tunnels, we didn’t need to use the escape routes we were within 300 metres of Flinders St Station so we were able to walk them through.”
Thanks to the recently switched-on phone reception throughout the City Loop, passengers were able to access their phones and the internet, with some posting photos off the eerily dark train carriages.
Train died in the city loop. Hello darkness my old friend. pic.twitter.com/BoIg3wzz6Q
— Matt Burke (@matttburke) December 13, 2016
Train plunged into darkness in city loop. Driver: “it just died” #spooky #cityloop @metrotrains pic.twitter.com/2AKa2kJbPm
— fionafinonia (@fionafinonia) December 13, 2016
The Victorian Government has already promised an investigation into the incident, with Premier Daniel Andrews offering an apology to affected passengers.
“I do want apologise deeply to those impacted by this. It would have been a very distressing experience to go through.”
So while it’s undoubtedly a rare and very shitty situation to have to have been in, it seems the good attitudes of commuters prevented things from getting much, much worse.
WE ARE SAVED! Being evacuated, thanks @metrotrains #traintrials pic.twitter.com/3QNtTc6368
— Sonia Heng (@saruneko) December 13, 2016
“Yeah look, soz about that. Give us about ten minutes and we’ll get youse all out.”
Dog bless you, mate.
