2016 Commuter Rail Delay Discussion Thread

[octr202]

Many issues on everything that isn't the Fitchburg Line up north this morning. 100 was cancelled out of Rockport (mech failure), and it sounds like two dead sets (50%!) at Bradford as well. Unknown whether one of them was healed, or a replacement set was sent up, but 206 appears to be cancelled, with a mixture of putting some people on the Downeaster (Haverhill), and also having 288 turn at Andover to cover there and Ballardvale. No idea what the poor souls at Bradford and Lawrence are supposed to do...

Further updates to the above, from the T'lerts;

-208 made it out of Haverhill in reasonable order, only to die between Bradford and Lawrence. Alerts now say an extra will "assist" it to Boston.

-201 died of unknown causes at Malden outbound. Alerts now say 289 will be used to shove it to Haverhill (and hopefully back again).

[octr202]

Many issues on everything that isn't the Fitchburg Line up north this morning. 100 was cancelled out of Rockport (mech failure), and it sounds like two dead sets (50%!) at Bradford as well. Unknown whether one of them was healed, or a replacement set was sent up, but 206 appears to be cancelled, with a mixture of putting some people on the Downeaster (Haverhill), and also having 288 turn at Andover to cover there and Ballardvale. No idea what the poor souls at Bradford and Lawrence are supposed to do...

Further updates to the above, from the T'lerts;

-208 made it out of Haverhill in reasonable order, only to die between Bradford and Lawrence. Alerts now say an extra will "assist" it to Boston.

-201 died of unknown causes at Malden outbound. Alerts now say 289 will be used to shove it to Haverhill (and hopefully back again).

And in an update to the update, it now sounds like both 208 and 201 are limping along unassisted now.

[Diverging Route]

Dozens of T-Alerts this morning for south side issues, with some delays over an hour. Culprit is "Amtrak signal issues."

[MBTA F40PH-2C 1050]

2017 and its air brake/computer were the issue on 706...messed up the morning rush hour on Franklin Branch. On the Corridor and Mainline, there was a broken rail on Track 2 at Hyde Park and dozens of track circuit issues, and switch problems at TRANSFER Int.

[Diverging Route]

From T-Alerts, 304 died this morning at Wedgemere and had to be pushed in by 206. That caused rippling delays to 306, 307 and 312.

[leviramsey]

410 (don't know the locomotive number) lost its HEP in Shirley. Also was stuck in the station for maybe 10 minutes.

[EdSchweppe]

And before 410 ran into problems, 406 crapped out, which meant that 408 picked up 406's passengers:

Fitchburg Update: Train 406's passengers will deboard at Ayer due to a mechanical issue. Train 408 will pick up passengers.

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492 was sent off from Littleton early, while 408 poked along behind making all local stops:

Fitchburg Line: Train 492 is currently about 5 min ahead of schedule. Train 408 will make local stops to accommodate Train 406's passengers.

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Net result: 408 was 39 minutes late at North Station. Not a good start to the day.

[Rbts Stn]

Here's a new one:

Needham Line notice:Train 1604 (10:00 am from Needham Heights) is at capacity. Consider Train 1606 (12:00 pm inbound)

I guess they didn't know there was something going on in town today?

[EdSchweppe]

Here's a new one:

Needham Line notice:Train 1604 (10:00 am from Needham Heights) is at capacity. Consider Train 1606 (12:00 pm inbound)

I guess they didn't know there was something going on in town today?

That march ended up a lot bigger than anyone had originally planned. From the Globe website:

Protesters headed to the Boston Women’s March on Boston Common Saturday morning overwhelmed parts of the MBTA subway and commuter rail, which ran extra trains in the morning to offset delays, and then ramped up to weeknight rush-hour service in the afternoon.

"It was equivalent to a Boston College football game and a Red Sox game hitting at the same moment, and it was bigger than anything we see typically on July 4 or New Year’s Eve,”"said MBTA Chief Administrator and Acting General Manager Brian Shortsleeve at an afternoon press conference. "The MBTA was all hands on deck."

Transit officials were planning for 70,000 people to ride rapid transit, commuter rail, and bus lines, Shortsleeve said, but the march far exceeded that number

[Rbts Stn]

There were no extra trains or extra cars from Needham.

[dbperry]

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