NEW YORK — Emergency responders are on the scene of a subway derailment in Brooklyn.
It occurred at round 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on the F prepare line on the West eighth Street station in Coney Island, the MTA stated.
So far, there have been no accidents reported. The FDNY is working to take away the 37 passengers from the prepare.
NYCEM is responding to a derailment incident on an elevated F prepare on Neptune Avenue. Emergency personnel are on scene together with the MTA Subway derailment crew. FDNY will use two trains to take away 37 passengers nonetheless on the prepare. https://t.co/jpj1T6zdOO
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The fireplace division stated one wheel got here off the tracks on the fourth automotive of the prepare.
Video from the scene exhibits trains upright on the tracks and firefighters on the platform.
F trains are delayed in each instructions.
New York City Transit introduced the next service modifications:
- The final cease on Coney Island-bound F trains shall be Kings Highway or Avenue X
- Some F trains are operating on the D line in each instructions between Coney Island and Stillwell Avenue and West 4th-Washington Square
- For service to and from Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue, clients ought to used D/N/Q trains. For service to and from Neptune Avenue, the B68 bus ought to used. For service to and from West eighth Street-New York Aquarium, use the Q prepare
- G trains are operating with delays in each instructions
Click right here for the latest service standing and modifications from the MTA.
Robert Paaswell, a civil engineer with City College, advised CBS New York’s Dana Tyler there are a number of attainable causes for a derailment on an elevated observe.
“Something within the tracks. The tracks is perhaps displaced, or a observe is perhaps damaged. It could possibly be resulting from climate, or displaced. It could possibly be a nasty wheel on a automotive, and a wheel may’ve come unfastened,” Paaswell stated. “It might need been one thing the place the operator of the prepare both stopped immediately or began immediately which jarred some vehicles collectively.”
The derailment comes lower than every week after a collision on the 1 line induced a derailment and injured dozens.
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