{"id":310358,"date":"2026-10-20T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310358\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:24:08","slug":"downed-wires-leave-septa-riders-stranded-for-hours-in-sw-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310358\/","title":{"rendered":"Downed wires leave SEPTA riders stranded for hours in SW Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Monday evening commute turned into a frustrating ordeal for dozens of passengers aboard a SEPTA Regional Rail train in Southwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to SEPTA, downed wires caused a Media\/Wawa Line train to become disabled near 49th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Viewer video showed passengers sitting in the dark aboard the stopped train for several hours as crews worked to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEPTA said riders were eventually transferred to another train before service was restored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SEPTA said normal operations are expected for Tuesday morning&#8217;s commute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Monday evening commute turned into a frustrating ordeal for dozens of passengers aboard a SEPTA Regional Rail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-310358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310358","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=310358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}