Commuters in New York and Connecticut were experiencing heavy delays Friday morning, after a Thursday evening outage hampered Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad service through Connecticut. The overhead catenary power lines for all four tracks east of Westport failed shortly before 5 p.

Downed power lines in Fairfield caused massive delays and cancellations to passenger train services throughout Connecticut on Thursday and led to some cancellations in surrounding states. The downed lines were reported in the early evening hours between the Southport and Fairfield station,