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Due to the heat, a rail broke on the Filevskaya line.
Around 2:30 PM, traffic was completely paralyzed between the "Kievskaya" and "Bagrationovskaya" stations. Passengers were offered to use the neighboring Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line or travel by ground transport.
"Train operators brought the trains to the stations, where all passengers were disembarked," the Moscow City Police Department reported.
The cause of the breakdown is the abnormal heat. After all, the Filevskaya line runs almost entirely in the open air, exposed to the scorching sun.
"Due to the heat, the contact rail expanded, which led to the breakdown," Svetlana Tsareva, head of the press service of the Moscow Metro, explained to Komsomolskaya Pravda. "From 3:06 PM, a shuttle train ran on one of the tracks between the 'Kuntsevskaya' and 'Kievskaya' stations, and a repair crew worked on the other. From 4:15 PM, trains on the Filevskaya line ran from 'Kuntsevskaya' to 'Bagrationovskaya' and from 'Kievskaya' to 'Alexandrovsky Sad'."
A large number of people gathered on the platforms, but there was no panic. Traffic is now gradually returning to normal.
"At 5:40 PM, after the malfunction was eliminated, power was supplied to the contact rail, and the restoration of train traffic according to the normal schedule began," the press service of the Moscow Metro reported.
Meanwhile, the unprecedented heat continues. At 4:00 PM, the base station at the All-Russia Exhibition Center recorded another maximum – plus 35! Scientists recorded the same readings at a station near Moscow State University. This is already the fifth record broken since the beginning of summer. But this is not the limit. At the meteorological station near the Bykovo airport, it is 38 degrees in the shade! There is no wind, and meteorologists do not rule out that the temperature will rise further.