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SEPTA’s Wilmington/Newark line to resume normal service after derailment

SEPTA had said work to repair the tracks damaged in the May 2 freight train derailment could take weeks.

A person was hit by a SEPTA train and killed not far from where this derailment occurred May 2. The victim was not a track worker.
A person was hit by a SEPTA train and killed not far from where this derailment occurred May 2. The victim was not a track worker. Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer

A month after a freight train derailed in Delaware County, SEPTA will resume normal service on the Wilmington/Newark Regional Rail Line on Monday.

The agency had instituted an emergency schedule while work was underway to repair track damaged May 2 when two hopper cars loaded with crushed stone on a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed between SEPTA's Eddystone and Crum Lynne stations.

That stretch of track is part of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and is maintained by the national rail corporation.

SEPTA had advised riders that track repairs could take up to a month.

While the emergency schedule will end Friday night, a special schedule will be in effect this weekend on the line and other Regional Rail lines as part of a separate interlocking reconstruction project. Details can be found on SEPTA's website.