What to Know
- NJ Transit will begin running trains in and out of Hoboken Terminal starting on Monday following a Sept. 29 crash that damaged the station.
- Trains on the Main/Bergen, Pascack Valley, Port Jervis lines will return to a weekday schedule. Other lines will also resume service.
- It comes a day after federal investigators revealed that the train was going 21 mph at the time of the crash.
New Jersey Transit will resume partial train service at Hoboken Terminal on Monday.
The transit agency said it will reopen tracks 10 through 17 starting with the first scheduled train Monday morning. The other nine tracks at the station will stay out of service for repairs following the Sept. 29 crash that killed one person and injured more than 100 others.
The Main/Bergen, Pascack Valley and Port Jervis lines will return to normal weekday schedules with some adjustments. Some express trains will be eliminated and other trains will be combined.
Additionally, trains coming from west of Montclair State University on the Montclair-Boontown line will continue onto Hoboken Terminal. Most trains on the Gladstone Branch line will travel to Hoboken, as well.
Trains on the North Jersey Coast and Raritan Valley lines that normally terminate in Hoboken will continue to terminate at Newark Penn Station.
NJ Transit said that commuters taking trains, light rail and buses should still expect crowding and delays because of the modified schedule. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, NJ Transit buses and private carriers will continue to cross-honor rail passes.
PATH will discontinue cross-honoring affected NJ Transit commuters effective 2 a.m. Monday, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said.
The terminal's historic waiting room, a customer service office and restrooms will all be open. Limited ticket vending machines will also be available, but NJ Transit is urging customers to use e-ticketing through the agency's smartphone app.
To see a full list of changes, visit NJTransit.com.
The return to normalcy comes a day after the National Transportation Safety Board revealed that the train that slammed into the century-old train terminal was traveling 21 mph at the time of the crash -- more than twice the posted speed limit in the area.
Informantion gleaned from a data recorder and video from a front-facing camera in the front of the train also revealed that the train sounded its horn 1 minute before the impact.
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— Leon O (@monduras) September 29, 2016
Then, 38 seconds before the crash, the throttle was increased and the train sped up from 8 mph. The throttle went back to idle and the engineer hit the emergency brake less than a second before the crash, investigators said.
A final report on the cause of the crash could take a year or longer to complete, the NTSB said.
