The incidents included alleged physical assaults, sexual crimes, racial threats and one instance where a woman was allegedly pushed towards the railway tracks.
NSW Transport Police are investigating 15 serious alleged crimes on Sydney train lines over the past year that have left commuters with "physical and emotional damage".
In another separate incident at Kingswood Railway Station on February 17, 2024, a man allegedly smashed a glass bottle over a teenager's head, before assaulting several people on a train carriage. In an unrelated incident exactly one month earlier, a man allegedly hurled racially charged threats towards another passenger, before assaulting him multiple times on a train between Ashfield Railway Station and Strathfield Railway Station at 1.30am.FILE IMAGE - There were ten other alleged incidents of similar nature also being investigated by Transport Police.
"These offenders are targeting some of our most vulnerable passengers thinking that they can get away with it. Operation Waratah is here to prove they cannot.
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