Metro Suspends Green and Yellow Line For 'Smoke' At L'Enfant Plaza

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Metro Suspends Green and Yellow Line For 'Smoke' At L'Enfant Plaza

Matt Cohen in News on Jan 12, 2015 4:00 pm

Service on Metro's Green and Yellow Line has been suspended between the Navy Yard and Pentagon City stops to the Mount Vernon Square stop after the L'Enfant Plaza station was evacuated for smoke.

Additionally, the Blue, Orange, and Silver Lines, which also pass through L'Enfant Plaza, are not stopping at the station, but service for those three lines has not otherwise been affected.

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1. NTSB investigating WMATA smoke-filled train incident

NTSB investigating WMATA smoke-filled train incident

Rail News: Passenger Rail 1/13/2015

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) service is operating on a modified schedule today after an electrical problem yesterday afternoon caused smoke to fill rail cars in a tunnel near L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, D.C.

One passenger died and at least 80 others were hurt in the incident, according to local news media reports.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and local police investigations are ongoing, but NTSB investigators yesterday said an "electrical arcing event" occurred about 1,100 feet in front of a train shortly after it left the L'Enfant Plaza Station, The Washington Post reported. The train and tunnel filled with smoke. The train was about 800 feet into the tunnel when it abruptly stopped.

According to the NTSB, the arcing event involved cables that powered the train's third rail.

Photos related to the event can be viewed on NTSB's Twitter account.