Harried commuters slowly get home
South Station is packed at this hour with commuters trying to get home on Franklin, Needham, Stoughton and Providence trains that are going way slower than usual because of what the state is calling "high water" between South Station and Ruggles. The Worcester Line, meanwhile, has delays of up to 40 minutes due to weather-related speed restrictions imposed by CSX.
"South Station has Fall of Saigon feeling right now," Steve Poftak reports, adding, "MBCR folks are communicating problems at least."
North Station commuters are faring marginally better. TC Cheever tweets from a Haverhill train that it left late and is now just sitting outside North Station. Lowell trains, meanwhile, are up to 20 minutes late because of flooding in Wilmington and Lowell, MassDOT reports.
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I was on the same train as Cheever.
We stopped just beyond Boston Engine Terminal for about two or three minutes to let a couple of inbound trains go by (this often happens with this train, so you can't blame it on the weather). Once we started up again, it was a normal trip, at least as far as Melrose Highlands where I got off.
BTW, the 5:55 only goes to Reading. It is not a Haverhill train.
You can tack on "disabled
You can tack on "disabled train on the Red Line" to the cumulative litany of tonight's commuting horrors, nothing out of the ordinary except I was actually *on* the train in vain (pulled up lame between Harvard and Porter round 7:10, made it up to Mass Ave in Porter around 7:45...)