A maintenance team did not get clearance to replace a circuit breaker during service hours.
SMRT said that the disruption was first caused by a circuit breaker in the Traction Safety Shutdown System on the Circle Line that tripped.was caused by a maintenance team that did not get clearance to replace a circuit breaker during service hours, said rail operator SMRT.
The team had wanted to replace the main circuit breaker to prevent the fault from happening again and affecting the work of withdrawing the trains to the depot later that day. “For the safety of our commuters, the Operations Control Centre had to account for all trains before normal services could resume. Learning from previous incidents, we activated diversion plans and advised commuters to continue their journeys using other MRT lines or buses,” SMRT said in its social media post.
SMRT is working with the Land Transport Authority to review the overall design of the TSSS and GES systems involved in the back-to-back disruptions on the CCL.
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