NEW YORK — Amtrak service between New York and Boston was restored early today after overhead power issues halted operation between the two cities much of Wednesday evening.
Amtrak announced that service was being halted in a social media post shortly after 7 p.m. ET and said that service had been restored in another post about 1:30 a.m., cautioning that some residual delays were anticipated.
During the outage, passengers traveling between New York and New Haven, Conn., had their tickets honored on Metro-North trains. Others were able to rebook another day at no charge or receive a full refund.
Even with the restored operations, a number of trains were cancelled this morning because equipment unavailability. These include southbound Acelas 2109 (an 8 a.m. train from New York to Washington), 2159 (a 9:10 a.m. departure from Boston for Washington), and 2171 (a 3:10 departure from Boston to Washington). Northbound cancellations included Acelas 2150 (Washington to Boston, departing at 4:54 a.m.), 2166 (Washington to Boston, departing at 12:55 p.m.), and 2124 (Washington to New York, departing at 6:30 p.m.).
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