LRT In Sengkang Broke Down! Sinkies Walk On Tracks In Near Darkness! All Survived!

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SINGAPORE: Some passengers found themselves walking on the Light Rail Transit (LRT) tracks in near-darkness in Sengkang on Tuesday evening (Mar 29), due to a train fault.

Off-duty cameraman Rajamohann Alrum Murugaiah said he was on the train travelling from Sengkang station to Renjong station at about 7pm when it stopped suddenly about 150m to 200m from Renjong station. He said the lights and ventilation fans went out for about five minutes, before coming on again.

SBS Transit first announced the disruption on Twitter at 7.57pm, saying there was no service on the East Loop of the LRT, and that free bridging bus services were available. It later stated at 8.22pm that services on the West (outer loop) of the LRT were also unavailable.

At 8.31pm, SBS Transit said full LRT service resumed.

Mr Rajamohann said while there were announcements on the train about the disruption, SBS staff only arrived about 20 minutes after the breakdown. They tried but failed to restart the LRT train, before two or three staff finally asked passengers to alight from the carriage and guided them towards Renjong station at around 7.30pm to 7.40pm.

There were about 30 people inside the train, but Mr Rajamohann said he did not observe any panic among his fellow passengers.

"It was after work ... I think they were just tired and frustrated," he said.

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some people commented that it is because oldies where kicked out and FT was brought in. Haha - we all should not forget that the entire railways network was done by FT and it was working fine til the day we took over and kicked them out after that we are having problems one after another.
Why dont we kicket all FTs that are constructing teh HDBs, Malls, Office buidlings and factories and why cant we Singaporeans step in and start constructing. Why can we kick out all HDB cleaners back to Bangla and why want we kick out all security staff and cleaners back to their own countries and handle what they are doing. Why cant we kick out all nurses to their country and manage ourselves. If we had tried doing that we would not be were we are today. Never forget the past..................