An F train derailed near the Neptune Avenue station in Coney Island on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2023.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
A subway train derailed in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, less than a week after two trains collided and derailed on the Upper West Side.
The incident occurred just before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, when a Manhattan-bound F train came off the rails at Neptune Avenue and West 6th Street, near the West 8th Street-NY Aquarium station in Coney Island.
A Fire Department spokesperson said that a wheel on the train’s fourth car came off the tracks on the elevated stretch of subway track. No injuries had been reported as of 1:20 p.m. Tuesday.
It’s not yet clear how the F train came to derail.
One rider told amNewYork Metro that she felt the train “jerk” before coming to a halt.
“The train jolted. It jerked and stopped,” said Elisa Gails, who was on the first car of the F train. “One was saying, ‘I hope the train doesn’t derail.’”
F trains are running with severe delays and disruptions as a result of the incident, according to the MTA. As of 1:13 p.m., F train service was suspended between Kings Highway and Coney Island, and all trains running between Kings Highway and Church Avenue were operating on “extremely limited” service as crews assisted passengers on the derailed train, the agency posted on X.
For service to and from Coney Island, the MTA recommends taking the D, N, or Q trains.
The incident is the second subway derailment in less than a week, after two No. 1 trains collided and derailed near the 96th Street station on the Upper West Side on Jan. 4.
Officials say that one of the trains had its emergency brakes vandalized and was taken out of service, and then proceeded against a red signal as another train with passengers aboard switched from express to local tracks.
As a result, 26 people suffered minor injuries.
Service was suspended on the 1, 2, and 3 lines in Manhattan for two days as a result of the…
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