Metro News Release
For immediate release: April 24, 2012
Blue/Orange Line service update 10:30 p.m.
As of 10:30 p.m., Blue and Orange Line trains are now operating on or close to schedule on a regular late-night schedule following a minor derailment involving a Blue Line train shortly after 7 p.m. at Rosslyn Station. The derailment involves a single wheelset on the first car of the train.
Crews are on scene working to rerail the wheels onto the rail.
It is not yet known what, if any, impact the incident may have on the morning commute. Updates will follow over the next several hours.
There were no injuries and all passengers were safely offloaded to the platform in less than 10 minutes. Metro estimates that there were approximately 1,000 passengers aboard the train.
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 between Foggy Bottom and Clarendon. No delays at this hour.
- Blue Line trains are single tracking between Foggy Bottom and Arlington Cemetery. No delays at this hour.
- 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 10:33 pm, April 24, 2012.