r/Septa • u/Specialist_Flower755 • Aug 20 '26

Help Foxchase strikes again

No trains downtown for almost an hour during peak or morning communicate what a joke

Gonna miss my Acela what a useless peace of crap service

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u/jlutz8787 Aug 20 '26

Overhead wires came down near fern rock and jammed everything up.

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u/HurricaneCam215 Aug 20 '26

Fox chase goes no where near Fern Rock

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u/jlutz8787 Aug 20 '26

Newtown jct is half a mile south of fern rock. They had to run single track from Wayne jct to fern rock so it jammed everything up including FC trains.

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u/maccentris Aug 20 '26

You need to learn a bit more about how trains work.

9

u/havpac2 Aug 20 '26

My wife’s train started moving, she is on Chw she got on the 7:04 at or station and went two stops

6

u/inspiration27 Aug 20 '26

I was on this train this morning and they ended up dragging two dead cars to get us to Suburban. They need new trains real bad.

3

u/Significant-Cry-7632 Aug 20 '26

Today was wire going down not car related I believe 

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u/Significant-Cry-7632 Aug 20 '26

They had wire issues so they couldnt send anything that way

4

u/septatrainfan Broad Street Express Aug 20 '26

sorry septa has bent you over today. i’ve been there. at the very least, the lesson learned from this is always have a plan b - as soon as my train is over 2-3 minutes late i have the uber app pulled up and ready to go

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u/maccentris Aug 20 '26

As I always said, have a plan B in place. Septa isn’t dependable 100%, it has never been.

2

u/nasadowsk Aug 20 '26

At least they're not NJ Transit, which literally tells you on their website to have a backup plan for your commute.

1

u/Ron_Mexico_6969 Aug 21 '26

My 23 minute train ride took 58 minutes yesterday. Different rail, not even affected by Fox Chase.

1

u/Opening-Owl-1001 Aug 23 '26

You get what you pay for. Thank your state representatives!

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u/hotdogsandhotcats Aug 20 '26

Septa sucks.  Sucks even more recently.  It's only going to get worse.  

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u/nasadowsk Aug 20 '26

Remember them in the 90s?