Société de transport de Montréal (STM) will be slowly reintroducing Azur trains on the Metro tracks Saturday after a breakdown on the orange line earlier this month.
“A train experienced tire problems, damaging track equipment as it went by,” explained STM spokesperson Amélie Régis when the incident occurred.
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Since the incident, which occurred Saturday, Jan. 14, the public transit service has done several tests, including inspecting the track switches to make sure everything runs smoothly.
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STM explained there was an issue related to where the trains and track equipment meet.
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Officials explained workers have welded the track switches before stations and along tail tracks.
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STM has also agreed to change the collector shoes, which slide along the rail to draw electricity needed to run the motor, on MR-73 and Azur cars more frequently; and install a restraining mechanism on the negative collector shoe plates as a preventive measure.
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The new trains have been in service for less than a year, but it’s not the first time problems have been reported.
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In June 2016, just four months after the new AZUR trains started carrying passengers, one of them was found to have a mechanical problem.
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