SEPTA provides update on major Regional Rail disruption

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- SEPTA has addressed the service disruption on Regional Rail during the height of the Tuesday evening commute.

The transit agency said Wednesday that equipment on top of a train coming out of the rail yard near Philadelphia's 30th Street Station became tangled with an overhead wire, causing a power outage.

At the same time, two other trains were disabled between 30th Street and Suburban stations, leaving only one available track.

"Our response teams worked as quickly as possible to restore service - clearing multiple trains that were out of service, assisting passengers who were on stranded trains, and making required repairs to re-open tracks. Unfortunately we could not fully restore service until 7:25 p.m., and we know that many passengers experienced delays of two hours or more," SEPTA's interim general manager, Scott Sauer, said in a statement.

Sauer said SEPTA is committed to making improvements to address these problems and clearly communicating with its customers.