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Amtrak and NJ Transit service into NYC Penn Station halted Monday morning over energy bother
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Amtrak and NJ Transit service into NYC Penn Station halted Monday morning over energy bother

Last updated: December 2, 2024 4:07 pm
Editorial Board Published December 2, 2024
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Harm to an overhead energy line on Amtrak’s Northeast Hall close to Newark, N.J., introduced practice journey between New Jersey and New York Penn Station to a halt for an hour Monday morning, snarling the morning commute.

The downed wire suspended all journey on the Northeast hall between Philadelphia and New York at about 9:30 a.m. Monday, earlier than service started to renew shortly after 10:30 a.m.

NJ Transit service — which additionally operates on Amtrak’s Northeast Hall line — additionally resumed round 10:30 a.m.

Service had suspended on the Northeast Hall in addition to the North Jersey Coast Line north of Lengthy Department, with trains certain for New York Penn being redirected to NJ Transit’s Hoboken terminal.

The harm to the overhead wires was within the “Newark, New Jersey, area,” in response to an automatic announcement performed over the loudspeaker on the Moynihan Practice Corridor. “We sincerely thank you for your patience and apologize for any inconvenience.”

Abrams stated the reason for the wire break “is still under investigation.”

In an announcement, Amtrak characterised the outage as an “unexpected situation” — although energy failures on the part of observe approaching New York Penn Station have turn into commonplace.

Amtrak’s growing older infrastructure, a lot of it initially put in by the now-defunct Pennsylvania Rail Highway, has mixed with NJ Transit’s growing older rolling inventory to create a summer season of distress for Backyard State commuters and regional rail riders, with frequent failures of each signaling and traction energy methods — typically a number of instances per week.

Failures of the overhead catenary wires — the ability traces that perform very similar to the third rail on a subway — have been an everyday incidence on the rail line in current months.

In Could, an overhead sign wire shorted the catenary close to Kearny, N.J., prompting Backyard State Gov. Phil Murphy to name the continuing outages an “unmitigated disaster,” and demand the federal railroad enhance funding in its growing older infrastructure.

The ability points have continued, nonetheless, with a number of outages alongside the identical stretch of observe by the New Jersey Meadowlands.

The 2 railroads stated in June that they might be conducting extra frequent inspections of each energy traces and the practice pantographs that gather traction energy.

The ability points transcend simply the overhead wires, nonetheless — in September, no less than 4 trains had been stranded between the Meadowlands and Penn Station when a 1932-vintage substation in North Bergen, N.J., went down for 40 minutes.

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