Red Line Derailment at Farragut North

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The first two cars of a Metro Red Line train derailed on Friday at 10:13 a.m. as it was leaving the Farragut North station. Three minor injuries have been reported. The 345 passengers have been taken off of the two cars directly affected by the derailment and loaded onto the other four cars of the train. The station and the streets around it all have been reopened except for Connecticut Avenue between K and L streets.

12:56 p.m.: Andrew Kneale, 27, of Arlington, was headed into the District for his first day back at work at the British Council on Metro’s Red Line. After leaving Farragut North he felt a slight bump and the train stopped.

“It was nothing severe,” he said. “It didn’t jar anyone. You wouldn’t know it was a derailment.”

Kneale, a cultural relations project manager for the British Council, was riding in the second or third car of the train, he said. After the bump, a voice came over the loudspeaker and announced the train had derailed, he said. He and the other passengers sat for about an hour and 20 minutes until the car he was riding in could be decoupled and sent back to Farragut North.

Despite the Red Line’s troubled reputation, Kneale wasn’t phased by Friday’s derailment. He said Metro seemed to handle the situation well. In fact, if the trains are running, he plans to take Metro to get back home.

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