CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Shuttle bus substitutions are continuing today (Thursday, Oct. 3) on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Green Line north of North Station in the wake of Tuesday’s derailment of a Green Line train near Lechmere station in Cambridge.
On Wednesday, the MBTA said it is “unclear” when service will resume because of an ongoing investigation into the derailment. “Once the investigation is complete, and the area is returned to the T,” the agency wrote in a press release, “infrastructure and maintenance personnel will make all repairs necessary to restore service.”
The National Transportation Safety Board has entered the investigation, and NTSB processes can make for lengthy disruptions at accident scenes. In the case of a Nov. 16, 2023, collision involving a Chicago Transit Authority train and a piece of snow removal equipment, it was Nov. 20 before NTSB released the scene to the CTA to begin clean-up and repairs. Subsequent CTA activity in the wake of the collision meant it was 50 days before the 4.7-mile Yellow Line to Skokie, Ill., reopened [see “CTA to resume Yellow Line operations …,” Trains News Wire, Jan 4, 2024].
WBZ-TV reports the derailed train was removed from the accident scene early this morning.
Seven people were taken to hospitals for treatment following the Tuesday derailment of a train with about 50 people aboard [see “Seven taken to hospital …,” News Wire, Oct. 1, 2024].
— Updated at 8 a.m. CT with report on train’s removal from accident scene.
