Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/18/unscheduled_stop/
Train driver asks passengers to get out and push
Not in Argentina, mercifully
Posted in Bootnotes, 18th May 2007 10:42 GMT
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We don't know what Argentinian commuters would make of it (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/16/argentinian_train_riot/), but hundreds of Indian train passengers were apparently happy to oblige when the driver asked them to hop out and push.
According to Reuters, the unscheduled jump-start happened in Patna, capital of Bihar, 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".
It took the emergency fare-paying labour more than half an hour to shift the train the 12 feet required to reconnect with the juice. Indian Railways spokesman Deepak Kumar Jha admitted: "In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident." ®
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Thanks very much to Mukesh for the tip-off.