Metro News Release
For immediate release: April 24, 2012
Blue/Orange Line service update 8:40 p.m.
As of 8:30 p.m., Blue and Orange Line trains continue to single track through Rosslyn due to a minor derailment involving a Blue Line train shortly after 7 p.m. The derailment involves a single wheelset on one car of the train.
There were no injuries and all passengers were safely offloaded to the platform in less than 10 minutes.
The train involved was a Franconia-Springfield-bound train consisting of six cars, four of which were on the platform at the time of the incident.
Service Information
- Orange Line trains are single tracking with delays between Foggy Bottom and Clarendon.
- Blue Line trains are single tracking between Foggy Bottom and Arlington Cemetery.
- Customers traveling between DC and Virginia are encouraged to consider using Yellow Line trains via L'Enfant Plaza as an alternate travel option.
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News release issued at 8:45 pm, April 24, 2012.