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Bucks County freight accident impacts SEPTA’s West Trenton Line

Delays on SEPTA's West Trenton line are running up to 30 minutes.

A SEPTA Regional Rail train. Service on the West Trenton Line is facing significant delays and disruptions in service due to a freight accident on Sept. 21, 2023.
A SEPTA Regional Rail train. Service on the West Trenton Line is facing significant delays and disruptions in service due to a freight accident on Sept. 21, 2023.Read moreTOM GRALISH / Staff Photographer
    by Beatrice Forman
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A freight train accident that occurred in Middletown Township, Bucks County, early Thursday morning is impacting service up and down SEPTA’s West Trenton line.

A freight train hit a cement truck on tracks shared by SEPTA around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, reported 6ABC, reportedly causing a small brush fire in the area immediately surrounding the accident.

It happened at the crossing of Big Oak Road and Township Line Road on the border of Yardley, just 1.5 miles away from the Woodbourne Regional Rail station.

Visuals from NBC10′s Skyforce 10 chopper show a cement truck with J.M. Pereira & Sons branding wrapped around the front of the freight train. It is unknown if there are any injuries.

Commuters on SEPTA’s West Trenton line can expect delays and frequent changes in service.

All Regional Rail trains on that line headed into Center City were originally suspended until further notice, SEPTA posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

Now, trains are running between West Trenton and Neshaminy Falls with delays of up to 30 minutes, and some trains have also begun to complete their trips in Center City, according to an alert from the transit agency posted at 7:30 a.m.