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Subway service remained disrupted on three subway lines on the West Side of Manhattan on Friday morning, transit officials said, a day after two trains collided and derailed, injuring about 25 people.
Service was suspended on the 1 and 3 lines between Times Square and Central Harlem, and the 2 train was running on the 5 line in Manhattan. Officials said Friday they hoped service would be partially restored on the subway lines later in the day, and noted that extra buses had been deployed to carry passengers up and down the West Side.
One derailed train car was still stuck in a subway tunnel near 96th Street as crews worked to get the car back on the rails, said Janno Lieber, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The other nine cars of the train, which was carrying about 300 passengers at the time of the collision, have been moved, he said, but the one remaining is in a low-height area, making it difficult to mount it back on the rails.
“With only inches to spare in this tunnel, it’s an incredibly delicate process,” said Richard Davey, the president of New York City Transit, the M.T.A. division that operates the subway. “Our hope is to try to get back some service today.”
The second train, which had been vandalized and disabled before the collision, remained in the area as well, officials said on Friday.
The derailments happened when a northbound No. 1 train carrying 300 passengers collided with an out-of-service train carrying four transit workers at around 3 p.m. Thursday, the M.T.A. said.
The problems began when vandals activated the brakes on a No. 1 train at 79th Street, officials said. That train went out of service and was slowly making its way uptown. As it passed 96th Street, another train carrying 300 passengers was switching back to a local track in front of it.
On Thursday, officials said the collision and derailments did not appear to have been caused by equipment malfunction.
Subway derailments involving passengers have been rare in recent years. The last one occurred on Sept. 20, 2020, when an A train came off the tracks around 14th Street with 100 people on board, and three passengers received minor injuries.
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