Trains and the Bruce Highway have come to a STOP

-See traffic page including Highway cameras (click here)


Update:

TransLinkSEQ TransLink SEQ 

Major delays Caboolture + SunC train lines ongoing due overhead power issue. Buses running Northgate-Petrie. Updates:bit.ly/velmFQ

Update: BRUCE HIGHWAY (BRUCE HIGHWAY) 

07:12 AM 25/11/2011

Motorists are advised that there is heavy congestion for southbound traffic on the Bruce Highway which begins in the North Lakes area and continues through to Beams Road at Carseldine. Please proceed with caution delays are being experienced.

There are no trains running between Petrie and Northgate stations due to an overhead power fault near Bald Hills. Also the Bruce Highway, south bound Mango Hill, has come to a stop (see highway cameras - click here).

Buses are running to replace trains between Petrie and Northgate and stopping all stations, however there is limited capacity.

Customers should:

• expect major delays during this morning's peak
• use alternate transport, such as buses
• avoid unnecessary travel during this morning’s peak wherever possible
• keep checking the TransLink website, twitter, listen to your local radio station and Queensland Rail staff at the station for updated information.

Customers may consider the following bus routes for travel to the Brisbane CBD this morning: 

• Route 680 (Redcliffe-Chermside bus interchange): stops at Petrie train station and Gympie Road, near Strathpine and Bald Hills stations. Customers can transfer to a high-frequency route 333 bus from Chermside to Brisbane CBD.
• 325 - Boondall to City (high-frequency)
• 330 - Bracken Ridge to City (high frequency)
• 335 - Taigum via Kirby Road (Carseldine) to City
• 336/337 - Chermside clockwise and anti-clockwise loop (connects with Geebung train station)
• P339 - Taigum via Kirby Road (Carseldine) to CIty (prepaid)
• 340 - Carseldine to City
• P341 - Carseldine to City (prepaid)
• P343 - Carseldine to City (prepaid)
• P344 - Carseldine to City (transfer at Newmarket station on Ferny Grove line for trains)
• 345 - Aspley to City (high frequency - transfer at Alderley station on Ferny Grove line for trains)
• 77 - Chermside to Eight Mile Plains: transfer from bus to train at Gympie Road near Windsor train station or Buranda bus/rail interchange.

Queensland Rail technicians are on site repairing the fault.