Service on the Mattapan trolley line on the Red Line’s high-speed service that runs through Dorchester, Milton, and Mattapan resumed Tuesday afternoon one day after a rescue mission for one disabled Mattapan trolley ended with two more trolleys out of service, and shuttles buses transporting passengers.
“Mattapan Trolley Update: Service between Ashmont and Mattapan has resumed,” the T said at 2:04 p.m. Tuesday via X, formerly Twitter. “Personnel have completed repairs to the disabled trolleys and shuttle buses have been phased out.”
Earlier Tuesday morning, T spokesperson Lisa Battiston had said that maintenance crews were working to return the three trolleys to safe working order.
According to Battiston, around 6:50 a.m. Monday, a trolley became disabled at the Butler Street station in Dorchester from a mechanical problem.
“Two trolleys were sent to assist the first disabled trolley, but were unable to push the train to the yard to be fixed – these two also subsequently became disabled,” she wrote in a e-mail to the Globe. Some four hours later, T workers were able to get the trains back to the yard in Mattapan for repairs, Battiston wrote.
Travis Andersen of the Globe Staff contributed to this report.
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