Published : Oct. 29, 2018 - 10:02
Sky blue subway Line No. 4 of Seoul was delayed for over an hour early Monday morning due to a power outage.
A Line No. 4 train traveling from Oido in the south to Danggogae in the north stopped in the middle of the city at Ichon Station at around 6:11 a.m., touching off a chain reaction of congestion that was only relieved about 1 hour and 15 minutes later.
Seoul Metro, which operates subway Line Nos. 1 to 8, said that another train was used to tow the one that had stopped. No injuries were reported.
(Yonhap)
Although services had already resumed by mid-morning, a complete normalization of operations is expected to take a while longer due to widened gaps between trains before and after the stopped car.
Photos from wire services showed six trains sluggishly moving in succession through a single subway stop to let off passengers.
Seoul Metro said the power outage in the train occurred due to a main circuit breaker failure that caused the power supply malfunction.
(Yonhap)
By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)