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A New York City subway train derailed on Thursday after colliding with another train at low speed, leaving more than 20 people with minor injuries and causing major service disruptions across Manhattan during the afternoon rush hour, authorities said..
At about 3 pm on the Upper West Side, a 1 train carrying about 300 passengers and an out-of-service Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) train with four workers on board hit each other near the 96th Street station, police and transit officials said at the scene..
A "derailment" is when at least one wheel of a train leaves the track...
The out-of-service train had been stuck because someone pulled a number of emergency stop cords and the workers were on board to reset the brake cords, said Richard Davey, president of New York City transit for the MTA...
Crews were working on Thursday night to clear the tracks and hoping to get service resumed by Friday morning's commute, but that was not guaranteed, officials said.. Firefighters helped remove passengers from the in-service train as well as a few hundred more people from another train that was not involved but had to stop in the tunnel because of the collision...
