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Get out and push

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Posted by traintownofcowee on Monday, June 4, 2007 12:25 PM
Laugh [(-D]Wow!! [wow]

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Posted by Dakguy201 on Thursday, May 17, 2007 5:07 AM
                                              Shock [:O]Oops [oops]
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Get out and push
Posted by dldance on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:03 AM

A friend of mine called the following to my attention

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PATNA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indian rail passengers got more than they had bargained for when the driver of their train asked them to get out and push.

It took more than half an hour to move the stalled electric train 12 feet (4 metres) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey, officials said on Wednesday.

The incident occurred in the eastern state of Bihar on Tuesday after a passenger pulled the train's emergency chain and it halted in a "neutral zone", a short length of track where there is no power in the overhead wires

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