Update: As of about 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, SEPTA officials said these issues have been resolved and normal operations have resumed. The original story continues below.
SEPTA regional rail customers were faced with delays Monday night due to a signal issue at the Wayne Junction and Vine Street Junction stations, officials said.
Trains on the Airport, Chestnut Hill East, Chestnut Hill West, Fox Chase, Doylestown, Media, Norristown, Thorndale, Trenton, Warminster, Newark and West Trenton regional rail lines were all dealing with delays due to the signal issue, SEPTA said.
Wayne Pinkstone told NBC10 his train was delayed for about an hour.
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"I was supposed to leave at 8:20," Pinkstone told NBC10. "It's now leaving at 9:20."
A SEPTA spokesperson said all available maintainers, specialists and managers were working to fix the issue and restore the system to normal service.
"SEPTA sincerely apologizes for the inconvenience to our customers. Tonight‘s signal issues are due to a failure in the communications system within the signal equipment at Wayne Junction," the spokesperson wrote. "This has impacted the ability of the signals to communicate with our dispatch center. To maintain safe operations, we immediately stopped trains when the issue arose at about 5:15 p.m., got crews in place, and then resumed with our field personnel manually throwing the switches so trains could move. These crews have been in constant radio contact with the dispatch center to ensure safety for customers and employees. This type of operation requires low-speed travel, and unfortunately that has caused major delays."
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The spokesperson said SEPTA customers should check SEPTA's website, social media page and app for the latest updates.
"There is an ongoing project to replace this portion of our signal system," the spokesperson said. "It will be complete within three years. Tonight's problems will be fully reviewed to help ensure that our customers are not inconvenienced like this again while we complete these infrastructure upgrades. We will provide further updates as they are available."
The delays occurred the same day a deadly shooting left a man dead and another injured at SEPTA's Arrott Transportation Center in Philadelphia's Frankford neighborhood though the two incidents are not related.
