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With more than 100 Silverliner Vs on track, regional rail advocates can focus more attention on passenger experience SEPTA and DVARP are working to crowd source Silverliner V rider feedback Entrance ...
Riders boarding the Silverliner V at Cynwyd. SEPTA officials inspecting the Silverliner V doors. The stairwell in the Silverliner V. Arriving only a few minutes late, the first of SEPTA’s new ...
Eighteen defective Silverliner V train cars that had been repaired and returned – or readied to return – to service have been removed again from SEPTA's Regional Rail system. The Silverliner ...
Philadelphia commuter trains returned to full rush-hour capacity Monday, three months after flaws found in Silverliner V rail cars forced service cutbacks, crammed cars and headaches for ...
Earlier this afternoon, SEPTA announced that all 120 of its Silverliner V Regional Rail cars had been removed from service due to a “serious structural defect.” More information is now ...
SEPTA on Saturday took all 120 of its Silverliner V Regional Rail cars -- which make up a third of its rail fleet -- out of service for inspection and repairs. SEPTA General Manager Jeffrey ...
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which serves Philadelphia and its suburbs, found a structural defect in a Silverliner V train on Friday, according to a press release.
SEPTA and its contractor LTK have been conducting more intensive inspections of all of the trucks for the Silverliner Vs in the two weeks since a fractured equalizer bar and the discovery of tiny ...
SEPTA has taken 120 Silverliner V Regional Rail cars out of service because of what officials termed as "a significant structural defect." "SEPTA has identified a significant structural defect ...
Hyundai Rotem has a manufacturing facility in South Philadelphia. It had the contract for those troubled Silverliner V cars that were yanked from service last summer because of defective parts.
SEPTA assistant general manager of operations Ron Hopkins addressed the media Thursday morning and showed off the Silverliner V railcars at SEPTA’s Overbrook shop. Cracks were found on all but ...
Philadelphia’s Suburban Station will host a public display Tuesday of a married pair of new Silverliner V cars being delivered to SEPTA. Agency staff will be on hand toanswer questions. The cars will ...