❓ Question addresses service delays on the Yanchep and Mandurah train lines due to a software fault. The answer reveals the number of passengers affected by bus replacements is unknown, and details the fault resolution.
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I refer to Yanchep and Mandurah Lines service delays on 19 May 2025, requiring passengers to disembark and bus replacement services to begin, and I ask: (a) how many passengers boarded a bus replacement service along the Yanchep and Mandurah Lines on 19 May 2025; (b) what was the technical issue at Murdoch Station; (c) how was the technical issue in (b) resolved; (d) did the technical issue involve any C-series trains; and (e) if yes to (d), how?
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Answered
24 June 2025
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Transport
Response time
9 days
(a) This number is unknown as unplanned rail replacement bus services are very dynamic in nature.
(b)-(e) On the approach to Murdoch Station, a train experienced a software-related fault and the railcar driver needed to reset circuit breakers to remedy.
(b)-(e) On the approach to Murdoch Station, a train experienced a software-related fault and the railcar driver needed to reset circuit breakers to remedy.
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