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Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:30 PM

Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, CA, 2/21/14:

A BART train departing the Concord station derailed shortly after 6:20 p.m. Friday, leaving cars strewn across both sets of tracks and the train's lead car hanging off the edge of the elevated rails.


Not pretty.

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Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:34 PM

Raw video at derailment scene from KTVU-TV, Channel 2 in San Francisco: http://www.ktvu.com/...railment/vCzNL/


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Posted 21 February 2014 - 10:37 PM

BART service advisory from their website:

as of 2/21/2014 at 7:35 PM --

Train Status: BART service has stopped between Pleasant Hill and Pittsburg/Bay Point until further notice due to a disabled train. Please seek alternate means of transportation. There is a station closure at Concord, North Concord/Martinez, and Pittsburg/Baypoint due to a disabled train -

Oh, it's disabled all right.....


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Posted 22 February 2014 - 01:29 AM

Latest story from KGO-TV, ABC-7 in San Francisco, CA of 2/21/14 has this BART line out of service for the rest of Friday and throughout Saturday as well:

BART train jumps tracks at Concord Station


According to BART spokesperson Alicia Trost, people will not have BART service past the Pleasant Hill BART Station tonight, all day Saturday and throughout Saturday night.

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Posted 22 February 2014 - 10:39 AM

San Jose, CA Mercury News, 2/21/14:

Concord: Cleanup from BART derailment to last through Saturday


Cleanup was expected to continue through Saturday after an unloaded BART train departing the Concord station derailed shortly after 6:20 p.m. Friday, leaving cars strewn across two sets of tracks and the train's lead car hanging off the edge of the elevated rails.

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Posted 22 February 2014 - 02:34 PM

Saturday midday upadate, from KGO-TV, ABC-7 in San Francisco, CA, 2/22/14:

No BART service past Pleasant Hill station due to train derailment


There will be no BART service past the Pleasant Hill station Saturday, so crews can repair damage caused by an out of service train that derailed on Friday.


Update

And here is what look like another story from this incident, but it was actually almost 3 years ago when something similar took place in the same location: http://abclocal.go.c...tory?id=8010868


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Posted 23 February 2014 - 01:30 PM

KGO-TV, ABC-7 in San Francisco, CA, 2/23/14:

BART service restored in East Bay following train derailment


BART service has resumed in the East Bay this morning following a train derailment that impacted the Pittsburg/Bay Point line on Friday.

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Posted 01 March 2014 - 08:53 AM

Contra Costa Times,Walnut Creek, CA, 2/28:

BART derailment: Investigators focus on train, clear driver

BART investigators are focusing their probe of the Feb. 21 train derailment in Concord on the four cars that jumped the tracks after they cleared the part-time train operator from any wrongdoing, a manager told the board late Thursday.

Paul Oversier, assistant general manager of operations, gave the most detailed explanation of the accident to date, saying inspectors have yet to find a "smoking gun."

"On these kind of incidents we prefer to have a smoking gun because then we know what to fix," Oversier told the BART board of directors at the end of Thursday's long meeting.

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The derailment could prove costly as the first two cars are "not repairable," while the second two will cost a "considerable amount of money" to fix.

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