Some NJ Transit Trains Canceled Monday Due To ‘Manpower Shortage'

MONTCLAIR, NJ — NJ Transit trains on the Montclair-Boonton, Morris/Essex and Main-Bergen-Port Jervis lines were canceled Monday morning due to a “manpower shortage,” the agency reported.

NJ Transit posted the following alert for the MOBO line on Oct. 8: “MOBO train #6206, the 6:45 a.m. from MSU, is canceled Monday, 10/8, due to a manpower shortage.” Officials said that customers can transfer at Newark Broad Street for service to New York Penn Station.

“Manpower shortages” also canceled trains Monday on the following lines:

• Morris/Essex line (train #481 at 6:55 a.m. from Hoboken)
• Morris/Essex line (train #480 at 8:55 a.m. from Bernardsville)
• Main-Bergen-Port Jervis line (train #1103 at 5:48 a.m. from Hoboken)
• Main-Bergen-Port Jervis line (train #1156 at 7:43 a.m. from Suffern)

It was an inauspicious start to the week for riders, some of whom are likely still fuming from last week’s NJ Transit train delays, which included a “minor derailment” and a fatal “trespasser strike.”

• See related article: NJ Transit Trains Still Seeing Delays On Friday After Derailment

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