Four die, 11 injured in New York train derailment

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REUTERS: Commuters from New York City’s northern suburbs braced for travel delays on Monday morning following a seven-car train derailment that killed four people and injured 11 critically. A portion of a Metro-North Railroad line between the Bronx and part of Westchester County could be closed for a week or more after the accident

on Sunday, in which a Manhattan-bound commuter train ran off the tracks while rounding a sharp curve in the Bronx. Service was suspended on the railroad’s Hudson line, which serves 26,000 on an average weekday, between the village of Tarrytown and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal, according to state’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), the parent company of Metro-North. The MTA was providing bus services as an alternative, and urged Westchester County residents to use its Harlem line. A team from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in New York City on Sunday and said its investigation would look at track conditions and the train’s mechanical equipment. The board will also explore any link between Sunday’s accident and a freight train derailment in the same vicinity in July. The crash happened at 7:20 a.m. about 100 yards (metres) north of Metro North’s Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx, in a wooded area where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. One car was lying toppled very near the water.