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SINGAPORE - Passengers in a train on the Bukit Panjang LRT system were stranded in the car for up to half an hour on Saturday (May 19), eventually walking on the tracks to the nearest station.
A Straits Times reader sent in photos and videos of people inside the train car, taken from her home nearby. Other images show passengers walking on the tracks, including a woman with a pram.
The reader, who gave her name only as Ms Lee, said she saw the train car with about 20 passengers inside stop on the tracks at around 1.30pm.
"Rescue forces came at about 2pm, and people were seen walking out at 2.03pm," she said.
It was drizzling while they were walking on the tracks, she said.
Facebook user Simon Neo posted photos of passengers stuck inside the cabin and walking on the track towards Petir station.
SMRT in a tweet at 2.17pm said there was no train service on the Bukit Panjang LRT due to a train fault between Phoenix and Bukit Panjang Stations.
In another tweet at 2.53pm, it said train service A has resumed and that its engineers were "working hard to recover service B". It apologised for the incident and said free bus services were still available.
The train fault comes a day after a brief train fault caused delays on the East-West Line, and two days after a platform screen door fault caused delays on the North-South Line.
ST has contacted SMRT for more information.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...n-bukit-panjang-lrt-passengers-walk-on-tracks
