PHILADELPHIA – SEPTA is warning Regional Rail riders of “significant disruptions” Wednesday after an overnight train derailment in North Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
A Regional Rail train on SEPTA’s Norristown\/Manayunkline derailed around midnight near 17th and Indiana streets, an area known as the 16th Street interlock where numerous tracks converge.<\/p>\n
Nearly 50 people were aboard the train, but no injuries were reported. Passengers were shuttled to their destinations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
SEPTA workers were at the scene of the derailment Wednesday morning to assess the damage, and investigate what caused the train to dislodge from the tracks.<\/p>\n
Why you should care:<\/p>\n
SEPTA says the overnight derailment has caused “significant disruptions” for commuters Wednesday morning, calling the site of the incident a “critical rail junction in North Philadelphia.”<\/p>\n
Below are the changes commuters should be aware of Wednesday morning:\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Manayunk\/Norrristown, Fox Chase and Chestnut Hill East Lines will be suspended until further notice.The Lansdale\/Doylestown, Warminster and West Trenton Lines will only be able to operate to-and-from Fern Rock. Customers can transfer to the B at Fern Rock for travel to-and-from Center City.The Airport, Media\/Wawa, Wilmington\/Newark, Paoli\/Thorndale, Trenton and Chestnut Hill West Lines will operate to-and-from Suburban Station. Please note these lines will not service Jefferson Station, so passengers will have to use Suburban Station for access to Center City or transfer to the L at 15th Street\/City Hall. <\/p>\n
Riders can also find alternate travel options here<\/a>.<\/p>\n SEPTA<\/a>Philadelphia<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA – SEPTA is warning Regional Rail riders of “significant disruptions” Wednesday after an overnight train derailment in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139,539,69,71,70,2618,2155,593],"class_list":["post-232741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa","tag-transportation","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232741","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=232741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}