Transit Police report the fatality occurred around 1:20 p.m. at a Middleboro Line crossing at Union and Water streets in Holbrook, where gates were down for an inbound train.
Passengers on the Middleborough/Lakeville and Kingston/Plymouth lines are sitting on trains or standing on platforms around 9 a.m. waiting as officials in Braintree try to determine whether a package on a platform there is dangerous.
Massive delays.
Ben Jackson, a regular, tweeted:
For the THIRD TIME THIS WEEK, the 6:58 inbound middleboro mbta train is disabled and we might have to push it into Boston.
At 8:50, Conor Yunits tweeted his train was late and the message boards were useless:
Hey mbta, remember that Brockton to South Station commuter rail train that was supposed to come 20 minutes ago? How about an update?
