Train hits barrier in Sydney, at least 15 hurt - Australian ambulance official

A damaged door is seen on a train which has crashed at the Richmond Station, northwest of Sydney, Australia, January 22, 2018 in this picture obtained from social media. Brett Saunders/via REUTERS

SYDNEY (Reuters) - At least 15 people were injured on Monday when a train crashed into a barrier in the northwest of Sydney, Australia's largest city, and were being treated by emergency services personnel, an ambulance spokesman said.

Television pictures showed the train had run into buffers at the end of the railway line at Richmond, about 65 km (40 miles)northwest of central Sydney. The injured were being carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances.