Sydney Trains hit by eftpos outages

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Morning commuters advised to pay cash.

NSW Transport has been suffering intermittent eftpos outages across its train networks since Tuesday, affecting customers during the morning commuter rush.

Some stations advised passengers eftpos was not available, but NSW Transport told iTnews transactions could still be processed.

“While a small number of ticket office machines cannot process eftpos transactions, they continue to operate in ‘offline’ mode. This means customers can use eftpos, but they must sign for each transaction, rather than use a PIN,” a spokesperson said.

Eftpos services at ticket vending machines are still working.

The issue affects a “small number” of stations across the Sydney Trains and NSW TrainLink networks, the department said.

NSW Transport said it was working to get the systems back to full capacity. It declined to provide the cause of the outages.

 

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Actually experienced this last Monday morning free train from the airport to city.