Photo from Gowanus Lounge
Some 1000 L train passengers had to be rescued when their train's emergency brake was tripped west of the Bedford Avenue station around 5:30 a.m. Monday, transit officials said.
The emergency brake was activated when a hanging cable came into contact with the third rail, a spokesman said. A rescue train was dispatched at 6:29 a.m. to bring passengers back to Bedford Avenue and arrived at the scene of the shut down train eight minutes later. Transit could not say how long the passengers were stuck because the latest report on the incident was a "draft." No injuries were reported, officials said. Deirdre Parker, a transit spokesperson, said the service disruption began at 5:31 a.m and lasted until full service was restored at 10:30 a.m. At the height of the disruption there was no L service between Eighth Avenue in Manhattan and Broadway Junction in Brooklyn.
