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Smoke and order to evacuate on an outbound Orange Line train at Haymarket

By adamg on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 5:19pm

A mechanical problem on an outbound Orange Line train ended with smoke in the front car and passengers ordered to evacuate at Haymarket shortly before 5:15 p.m. - bringing service towards Oak Grove to a halt and firefighters racing to the station as fast as they could during rush-hour traffic.

At 5:15 p.m., JahHills reported:

Orange line at Haymarket just came to a sudden stop, told to evacuate, smoke coming from first car, people screaming.

BFD found smoke, but no fire.

Shortly after 5:30 p.m., T officials ordered passengers off a functioning train at State and used that to push the dead train into the Mystic River to the Wellington yard for repairs.

Separately, a medical emergency at Ruggles caused delays on commuter-rail trains out of South Station that head that way.

Neighborhoods: 
Downtown
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Orange Line
Haymarket


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Comments

By cybah on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 6:25pm.

explain the flurry of BFD and T Police around 5:10pm flooding the streets.

By Elmer on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 6:55pm.

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By Rich M on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 7:13pm.

Orange line train smokes and dies, T commuters left stranded to cry.......

By Elmer on Sat, 05/31/2014 - 3:05am.

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By Michael on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 6:57pm.

If everything goes as planned [pause for laughs] the new fleet is only five years away.

By cybah on Fri, 05/30/2014 - 7:00pm.

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