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Newburyport Line under a curse; riders wonder if it could get worse
By adamg on Thu, 08/11/2016 - 2:33pm
Here are some of the current MBTA alerts for the Newburyport/Rockport Line:
Rockport Train 114 (12:30 pm from Rockport) is expected to operate 50-60 min late between Montserrat and North Station due to a mechanical issues. Updates to follow.
Later Today: Rockport Train 193 (4:40 pm from North Station) is cancelled. Passengers should take Train 117 (5:00pm from North Station) which will make all local stops.
Later Today: Rockport Line Train 194 (5:35 pm from Beverly) is cancelled. Passengers should take train 120 ( 5:10 pm from Rockport) to North Station.
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Comments
So, one train hits a pickup truck
and half a dozen trains, some which are not even on the same line that the collision occurred on, are cancelled.
Wonder how much of this is actually due to one trainset being down, and how much of this is just Keolis management looking for a convenient excuse to not run trains today.
All these short turns cancelled
On the north side:
4:48 Reading
6:05 Reading
4:20 Anderson
4:40 Beverly
Those are outbound times - these are "turns" so their inbound counterparts are also cancelled. Several expresses will run local to make up stops, but expect (very sweaty) crowds.
Likely -2 sets north (212's grade crossing crash, and also the inbound mechanical failure from Rockport), made worse by any spare equipment probably already sent south to cover for the Pats trains.
Good points. And today did have some unique circumstances.
However, Keolis still routinely cancels the short turns on days where there are no crashes or significant failures and/or when they don't need the reserve equipment for the Patriots trains. Hence my previous comment.
114 died
Nothing mysterious about this. 114 died and it was unrelated to 212 entirely.
Over on railroad.net
Sources say there was a test set that could have been pressed into service for the PM rush that also died. Apparently Pan Am Railways crews had to tow not one but two commuter rail sets in this afternoon.
aaaaargh!
So, for those of us trying to keep score at home, and paging through all of this weeks' alerts on my phone, I believe that brings the total # of cancelled trains on this line this week to six, not counting the usual delays.....and it's only Thursday!