Furious passengers who spent eight nightmarish hours “imprisoned’’ on a subway train to nowhere during last year’s Christmas weekend blizzard are filing suit against the MTA.
As snow piled two feet high, riders on the snowbound train had no food, water, heat or a place to use the bathroom.
The tracks at that point in Queens are on an embankment, so the riders could use cellphones.
But that proved even more frustrating, the lawsuit says, claiming passengers on the A train got the runaround from 911 and the MTA, which promised help, but never delivered.
“There was no one to help us,” Agnes Hui, of Brooklyn, who was returning home from JFK Airport, told The Post yesterday.
“It was a nightmare,” said Hui, one of the plaintiffs.
“I couldn’t hold it [bodily functions] anymore. I had to go between the cars. I could have been electrocuted.”
The suit says some of the passengers had to be hospitalized after the ordeal.
“When the train was finally moved, the passengers were off loaded at the next stop, in the freezing cold, with about three feet of snow on the ground,” according to the lawsuit, which is scheduled to be filed today.
The Dec. 26 storm paralyzed the city.
But no horror story was worse than the one on the A train, where Manhattan-bound passengers were “deplorably imprisoned’’ between the Aqueduct and Rockaway Boulevard stations, the suit claims.
About 500 people were on the train; some 25 are plaintiffs in the suit, which seeks unspecified damages.
Nearly 12 months later, the MTA’s subway boss admitted what had been painfully obvious: transit officials had lost track of the train.
“We forgot about it,” NYC Transit President Thomas Prendergast told a shocked City Council hearing earlier this month.
“And it’s inexcusable.”
Attorney Aymen Aboushi said his firm took on the lawsuit pro bono to push the MTA into adopting a policy that would avoid a repeat catastrophe.