WTC to W4 in 26 min

[bharat]

I got into an E at WTC at 8.26 yesterday (Fri). It crawled out and very lazily pulled into Canal 5 min later. Then there were several stops between Canal and Spring and then no urgency in leaving Spring. C was running on the express line. A couple of A's and and even the next E passed us on the express track. Finally doors closed and we crawled out and snaked our way to W4. Just outside W4, the E that had passed us on the express track was waiting to get in - so we had an uptown E on the local and an E on the express. We finally pulled into W4 at 8.52. The 'express' E had gone by then. An A pulled in and I hopped into it. It made better progress (but still slower than usual) to 42nd. GOt there at 9.05 or so. It wasn't at all clear what was wrong. I didn't see any stalled trains on the local track. Does anyone know what happened?

 

Bharat

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[Ben Kabak]

There were some signal problems at W 4 yesterday. You probably ran into them early on.

[SevenEleven]

There was a signal malfunction yesterday that locked up the area around West 4th. More info is here:

 

http://nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14749

[Bill from Maspeth]

I heard a broken rail on the n/b local track was the culprit. That can and will cause a signal problem too!

[EE Broadway Local]

I heard a broken rail on the n/b local track was the culprit. That can and will cause a signal problem too!

Was it serious?