(Courtesy: Jake Chmielowski)
RIDLEY PARK, Pa. – Scary moments for SEPTA passengers traveling in Delaware County after a Regional Rail train caught fire.
Passengers on board were evacuated and waited at the stop for transportation to their destination.
What we know:
A SEPTA train leaving Philadelphia caught fire somewhere in Delaware County.
The train was heading to Delaware when services were halted near Crum Lynne due to the fire about 6:15 Thursday evening.
What they’re saying:
A woman on the train, Dnasia Buckner, described the scene saying everything was fine when they left Philadelphia, but somewhere between Ridley Park and Norwood, in Delaware County, the car she was riding in began to smell strange.
“We had to get up and relocate to another car and then we had to get up and relocate again and that’s when I started to see smoke coming from the side of the train. And, as people were walking by, they said the train’s on fire, but the conductors aren’t saying anything. And, eventually they opened the doors and we got off,” she explained.
She went on to say passengers were on the train about 15 minutes while they smelled smoke, but before they evacuated. She thought there were about 200 passengers on the train and it took about 15 minutes to get off the train.
Video from the scene showed smoke swirling about one of the train cars.
What’s next:
Several SEPTA buses arrived about 7:15 Thursday evening to carry passengers to their destination.
Amtrak alerted their passengers that service between Wilmington and Philadelphia was halted on the Northeast line, due to fire department activity on the tracks. Amtrak then alerted about an hour later that service was back up and running.
No details were released regarding the cause of the fire. No injuries were reported.
