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F Line Track Fire Snarls Morning Commute Through Manhattan

June 29, 2010 11:23am | Updated June 29, 2010 11:23am
A track fire delayed service on the F train Tuesday morning.
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By Simone Sebastian and Michael Ventura

DNAinfo Staff

SOHO - A small track fire on the F line snarled the morning rush on Tuesday, forcing several subway lines to be diverted.

The fire started at around 8 a.m., an NYC Transit spokesman said, on tracks near the Broadway-Lafayette station on Houston Street.

Wires along the track started burning, the spokesman said, and trains that nornally use that station had to be diverted.

Manhattan-bound F trains were diverted over the A line between Jay Street-Borough Hall to West 4th Street. But for some unlucky F passengers, they were further delayed by a stalled train at Canal Street, which kept subways stalled for roughly a half-hour.

A Coney Island-bound D train was spotted running to Brooklyn on the A line at Broadway-Nassau station.

Service returned to normal at roughly 9 a.m., NYC Transit said.

Residual delays followed due to train traffic.

The smoke condition was not visible in the Broadway-Lafayette station, nor in the adjacent Bleecker Street station, a transit spokesman said.



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