BRAINTREE, Mass. — A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority rapid-transit trainset rolled out of a storage yard and onto station tracks after an operator lost control, disrupting Monday morning Red Line rush hour operations, the Boston Globe reports.
The incident at the Braintree station occurred about 5:30 a.m. and led to delays of up to 30 minutes before normal service was restored about 9:20 a.m. An MBTA spokesman said the “unintentional” move involved a two-car trainset with “diminished braking capacity.” The agency is investigating, he said.
The incident, the latest in a series of MBTA operating issues, comes a month after the Federal Transit Administration issued a directive requiring the agency to establish new procedures for moving trains with mechanical problems, citing runaway issues at MBTA railyards [see “Federal directives order MBTA to address safety issues,” Trains News Wire, June 15, 2022]. That was just one of four directives from the FTA.
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