Get out & push!
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davidfcooperAt least you don't have to push your subway, Amtrak, or commuter train!
May 18, 2007
BIHAR, India - Hundreds of passengers on a train in India found themselves in the unusual situation of being asked by the motorman to get out and push, the United Kingdom's Metro web site reported. The train, in the state of Bihar in eastern India, was stopped when a passenger pulled the emergency cord. Unfortunately the train was stopped in a 'neutral zone' - a small section of track where is no electrical current in the overhead wires.
Normally, trains have enough momentum to carry them through the neutral zones. But when this train stopped, the passengers had to get off and push it the remaining 12 feet into the powered section of the line. It took them over half an hour of pushing to shift the train to the powered section. A spokesman for Indian Railways commented: "In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident."
May 18, 2007
BIHAR, India - Hundreds of passengers on a train in India found themselves in the unusual situation of being asked by the motorman to get out and push, the United Kingdom's Metro web site reported. The train, in the state of Bihar in eastern India, was stopped when a passenger pulled the emergency cord. Unfortunately the train was stopped in a 'neutral zone' - a small section of track where is no electrical current in the overhead wires.
Normally, trains have enough momentum to carry them through the neutral zones. But when this train stopped, the passengers had to get off and push it the remaining 12 feet into the powered section of the line. It took them over half an hour of pushing to shift the train to the powered section. A spokesman for Indian Railways commented: "In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident."
