Sydney Trains warns of even more delays today: What you need to know trends now
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Sydney's Train commuters are being warned to prepare for possible delays this morning after the network came to a standstill yesterday due to a technical glitch.
All trains were stopped at platforms for about an hour until services began running again about 4pm.
A massive backlog spilled into other public transport and sparked an Uber surge that was slammed by the transport minister.
Transport NSW were forced to halt all trains due to safety reasons after the Digital Train Radio System failed.
The system has since been rebooted and grounded trains have started running again.
Just after midnight, the official Twitter accounts for all Sydney Trains lines warned people to be prepared today.
'Allow plenty of extra travel time due to a train communication issue earlier,' the official messages said.
The screens at Central Station were completely blank on Wednesday afternoon following an outage
'Trains are running to a reduced frequency & changed timetable. Stops and platforms may change.'
Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland said the issue stemmed from an 'extremely rare' failure in the digital train radio system about 2.45pm.
'For safety reasons that meant that we had to bring trains back to platforms so customers could safely get off those trains,' Mr Longland said.
Sydney Trains operates about 3000 service a day and authorities said it would take
