CityRail - Train vandals strand 60 passengers (November 16, 2009)

More than 60 people were trapped on a train for an hour-and-a-half in Sydney's south-west last night after a pair of hanging bicycle rims smashed in its windscreen and cut power to the carriages.

Police said the bicycle rims were suspended from a bridge on Liverpool Road at Ashfield.

The train passed under the bridge and smashed into the rims about midnight, the impact of the collision smashing in the train's windscreen and flipping the rims up into the rail network's overhead cables.

It took 90 minutes to free the 60 or so passengers on board because emergency services were worried about live power travelling through and around the train.

The train driver, a 26-year-old Bass Hill man, was not hurt.

Investigations into the incident are continuing.

Anyone who may have seen someone in possession of pushbike rims, or acting suspiciously near the train line at Liverpool Road, near Carlton Crescent, should contact Ashfield Police vis Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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[JBofBrisbane]

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[coreyvandenberg]

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[coreyvandenberg]

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[erana19]

More than 1 in 5 peak services cancelled due to vandalism? Oh well, as long as sloppy reporting doesn't cost them viewers, I suppose it all makes sense.