Delays On Green Line Near Kenmore Square MBTA

BROOKLINE, MA — Shuttle busses are replacing the Green Line C Branch services Friday morning after Green Line officials reported some smoke in the wire trough above the tracks.

"Boston Fire responded, investigated and cleared," said MBTA spokesperson Joe Pesaturo. "The MBTA Power Department will make repairs to the overhead catenary system."

Green Line C riders heading into Boston were told to get off the train at St Mary's on the C line and at Fenway for the D line because the train they were on was on fire, two riders said. They said they were not aware of shuttle bus replacements at that point. Several riders walked to Kenmore to take the train there, they said.

The MBTA issued an alert at 9:45 a.m. and then again at 10 a.m. about delays because of "fire department activity near Kenmore."

By 10:35 the MBTA tweeted that shuttle busses would be replacing the C line between Kenmore and St Mary's and D Branch service between Kenmore and Fenway because of a train with a mechanical problem near Kenmore.

Pesaturo said it turned out there was no fire on the train, only smoke coming from the overhead wires.