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SkyTrain service resumes after brief Wednesday night disruption

SkyTrain light rapid transit cars on a section of elevated track between the Stadium-Chinatown and Main Street-Science World stations, Vancouver, B.C., May 1, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS IMAGES/Bayne Stanley

Transit commuters in New Westminster are travelling again.

A fire in the area caused a SkyTrain closure between Columbia and Sapperton stations Wednesday evening just before 9 p.m.

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Service resumed after 30 minutes.

The delays impacted all Expo Line trains leaving Waterfront Station in Vancouver, heading towards King George Station in Surrey.

READ MORE: Track work has TransLink warning weekend commuters of SkyTrain delays

The Millennium and Canada lines were not affected.

So far, no comment from TransLink and New Westminster Fire.

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