{"id":281840,"date":"2026-09-09T01:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:06:09","slug":"septa-paoli-thorndale-and-cynwyd-lines-suspended-due-to-amtrak-overhead-wire-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/281840\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA Paoli\/Thorndale and Cynwyd lines suspended due to Amtrak overhead wire issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \"><a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/paoli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paoli<\/a>\/Thorndale outbound trains from <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/center-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center City<\/a> were suspended this morning right before morning rush hour and again Tuesday evening because of wire problems, a <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/septa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SEPTA<\/a> spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cWe are having significant delays on the Paoli\/Thorndale Line due to downed wires near 37th and <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/mantua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mantua<\/a>. Amtrak is working on it, but we expect the delays will last through the evening,\u201d SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said in a 6:45 p.m. email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Service also was disrupted Tuesday morning on both the inbound and outbound Cynwyd Line, but that service has since resumed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Amtrak reported at least one train delay earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Damage to overhead catenary wires at an Amtrak railway junction near the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/topic\/philadelphia-zoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Zoo<\/a>, which some SEPTA regional rail services like Paoli\/Thorndale and Cynwyd share, delayed and suspended some rail service across the region, Busch said earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">An Amtrak spokesperson said crews responded and restored service in both directions by approximately 7:25 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Paoli\/Thorndale outbound trains from Center City were suspended this morning right before morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,117795],"class_list":["post-281840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa-paoli-thorndale-cynwyd-suspended-amtrak-overhead-wires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281840","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=281840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}