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Apr 24, 2009 7:12 pm US/Pacific

BART Train Catches Fire At Bay Fair Station

SAN LEANDRO (CBS 5 / AP / BCN) ― Bay Area Rapid Transit trains were delayed up to 30 minutes system-wide during the Friday evening rush hour after a train fire at the Bay Fair station in San Leandro.

BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the fire started at 4:40 p.m. on a Fremont-bound train. It was put out less than an hour later.

The train had been evacuated earlier at the Coliseum/Oakland Airport station because of brake problems, so he said no one was on board when it caught fire.

The train was on a "pocket track" and not on active tracks at the Bay Fair station when it caught fire, Johnson said.

There were no reports of injuries due to the fire.

(© CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The Associated Press and Bay City News contributed to this report.)

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