SEPTA cancels multiple Regional Rail trains for Monday morning rush hour due to ongoing maintenance
In a statement late Sunday, SEPTA said multiple trains on the Airport, Fox Chase and Chestnut Hill West lines will be cancelled during the Monday morning rush hour.
Three of SEPTA’s Regional Rail lines will be severely impacted during Monday’s morning rush hour, due to the transit system’s ongoing fleet maintenance.
In a statement late Sunday, SEPTA said that several trains on the Airport, Fox Chase and Chestnut Hill West lines will be canceled Monday morning, and that several other trains on those same lines will be canceled later in the day.
Apart from the planned cancellations, some trains on other Regional Rail lines were canceled early Monday morning too, including trains on the Trenton, Warrington, Paoli/Thorndale, and Lansdale/Doylestown lines, according to SEPTA.
More than 80,000 people ride SEPTA’s Regional Rail lines on a weekday, however, officials did not give an exact number of riders impacted by today’s interruptions.
The cancellations, the statement said, are the result of the mandated maintenance that SEPTA is conducting on its Silverliner IV train cars.
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SEPTA had to sideline 223 of those cars in early October after an emergency order from the National Transportation Safety Board. The aging train cars, which make up two-thirds of the Regional Rail fleet, were involved in five train fires of undetermined cause earlier this year. According to a SEPTA spokesperson, more than two-thirds of the fleet is inspected, and the transit agency expects to complete maintenance by the Nov. 14 deadline.
The Silverliner IVs were built during the administrations of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, meaning the newest are 50 years old.