{"id":232233,"date":"2026-06-30T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232233\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:15:32","slug":"train-derails-in-bensalem-shelter-in-place-lifted-by-police-southeastern-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232233\/","title":{"rendered":"Train derails in Bensalem; Shelter-in-place lifted by police | Southeastern Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM TWP., Pa. &#8211; A train derailed in Bensalem Township on Tuesday afternoon, according to local police.<\/p>\n<p>The Bensalem Police Department says fire, EMS, and hazmat teams responded at around 2:47 p.m. to a derailment involving 5 to 10 freight cars between Street Road and the Neshaminy Falls Train Station.<\/p>\n<p>Hazmat personnel deemed the area safe, and authorities lifted the shelter-in-place order as of 4:53 p.m. Officials say there is no threat to the public, and all residents may return to their homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates will be provided as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TWP., Pa. &#8211; A train derailed in Bensalem Township on Tuesday afternoon, according to local police. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,26030,100411,58811,100412,10955,50857,2552],"class_list":["post-232233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-emergency-response","tag-freight-cars","tag-hazmat","tag-neshaminy-falls-train-station","tag-shelter-in-place","tag-street-road","tag-train-derailment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}