Crashing on the southern segment of Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line of the Moscow subway happened because of a power surge. On Thursday, the Telegram reported on canal metro.
“On Thursday, September 28, at 19:20 in the southern section of Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line has been a power surge that caused a failure in movement of trains. Because of a power surge triggered automatic protection system, which failed to quickly troubleshoot problems,” said there.
The press service noted that to ensure the passage of passengers the gray line subway was organized by the movement 29 of the compensation buses. Currently, they continue to carry passengers, it is stated in the message.
“All the stations of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line are operating normally, the movement of trains was restored and entered into the schedule”, — said the press service of the subway.
Thursday night was suspended the movement of trains from station “Nagornaya” to the station “South”, also at the entrance of the passengers were temporarily closed station “Nagornaya” and “Serpukhovskaya”. Source “Tape.ru” indicated that the cause of the accident, according to preliminary data, there was a short circuit and fire on the Borovitsky electrotraction substations