Train pushing

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I'll never complain about Irish Rail's service again...
(well, maybe not never, but at least for today)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0516/india.html

Hundreds of rail passengers in India had to give the electric train they were riding on a push after it lost power from the overhead wires.

The train in the eastern state of Bihar had stopped in a 'neutral zone' after a passenger pulled the emergency chain.

Normally, a train's momentum allows it to continue through such zones.
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This time, however, passengers had to push the train 12 feet (4 metres) to the next stretch of live wires.

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