SBS Transit operated North-East Line's turn to breakdown this evening

The series of train breakdowns have finally caught the SBS Transit's North East Line (NEL) this evening (Thursday 16 Nov) with commuters tweeting about delays experience along the line starting at 6:19pm.

https://twitter.com/wannabdoc/status/931104537657589765

https://twitter.com/alloymkl/status/931104590459674629

https://twitter.com/fly_me_away/status/931105197014708224

https://twitter.com/xierh/status/931105431644024833

https://twitter.com/samthingies/status/931105483791802368

At 6:24pm,  SBS Transit announced via in a Twitter post that NEL service was delayed due to a train fault at Clarke Quay Station towards Punggol. It advised additional travel time of about 10mins in both directions:

https://twitter.com/SBSTransit_Ltd/status/931105629397123072

Other tweets from affected commuters continued to come in:

https://twitter.com/Asta0603/status/931105980191989760

https://twitter.com/dk/status/931106056159215617

https://twitter.com/WZJay/status/931106382538928128

https://twitter.com/soshinbbluee21/status/931106567029587968

https://twitter.com/NickoCocks/status/931107251091251200

https://twitter.com/DerrickL3768/status/931107971022462978

https://twitter.com/FSteven/status/931108470421536768

https://twitter.com/Nakahama10/status/931113509466775552

https://twitter.com/wannabdoc/status/931113588608999424

https://twitter.com/987fm/status/931116466778157056

https://twitter.com/zayleefaith/status/931118360380653570

While not all commuters realise that NEL is run by SBS Transit, but still the tweets gave a picture of the effect of the service disruption:

https://twitter.com/FREEFROMBRACES/status/931113299671838720

https://twitter.com/isabeloparena/status/931115347943481349

https://twitter.com/vindicated_pri/status/931120809308909576

At 7:19pm, SBS Transit tweeted again that NEL was still delayed, free passing & free bridging bus rides were available at designated bus stops between Outram Park NE3 and Farrer Park NE8:

https://twitter.com/SBSTransit_Ltd/status/931119527705718784

Sett Paing tweeted at 7:36pm that he got chased out at Clarke Quay:

https://twitter.com/settpaing/status/931123861612937217

And commuters kept posting on Twitter, with some noting how SMRT is getting the flak from commuters instead of SBS Transit:

https://twitter.com/imdiscreet1/status/931124209572487168

https://twitter.com/eXAKR/status/931125471281954816

https://twitter.com/AhZheng/status/931126235379335168

https://twitter.com/Juehuaaa/status/931126805066498048

Commuters also noted that the free bus rides didn't help much:

https://twitter.com/avijit_patnaik/status/931130658352594944

At 8:04pm, SBS informed that NEL has progressively back to regular service at affected station since 7:53pm. Trains have said to be now in full services at all stations:

https://twitter.com/SBSTransit_Ltd/status/931130806130458624

But Carol Tham advised SBS Transit:

https://twitter.com/ladywolferin/status/931132749355745280