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Train passengers told to 'get out and push'

No, this story isn’t about the UK’s rail service, although that might not have been too surprising…

Hundreds of passengers on a train in India were asked by the driver to get out and push. The train, in the state of Bihar in eastern India, came to a halt when a passenger pulled the emergency cord, reports Metro. But it stopped in a ‘neutral zone’ - a small section of the track in which there’s no electrical current in the overhead wires. The passengers were forced to get off the train and it took them half-an-hour to push it the remaining 12 feet into the powered stretch of the line.

A spokesman for Indian Railways commented: “In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .