Ticketless passenger thrown out of train - dies

Surath Pandey aged 26 died when he was thrown out of a running train allegedly by four Travelling Ticket Examiners (TTEs) after he failed to produce his ticket near Katwa railway station in Bardhaman district in West Bengal State of India. Read more.......Ticketless passenger thrown out of train

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Train driver asks passengers to push it

If you are going with your family in your car & car just stops on the road, there are chances that your family members may have to push the car for some time to put in on the roadside or to get it restarted. If same thing happens while you are in a Cab / Taxi, then you shall certainly get annoyed with the Cab driver if he asks for such favor from you. But just think if you are traveling in a Train & its driver asks all the passengers to get down & push the Train, what shall be your reaction!!!!!!

Exactly same has happened with rail passengers in Bihar state of India where driver of their train asked them to get out of the train and push it. Incidentally such incident happened in a state from which "Mr. Laloo Prasad Yadav", the "Indian Railway Minster" hails from.

It took more than half an hour of the pushing effort of all the passengers to move the stalled electric train 12 feet (four meters) so that it touched live overhead wires and was able to resume its journey.

The incident occurred 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.

“In so many years of service in the railways, I have never come across such a bizarre incident,” said Deepak Kumar Jha, a spokesman for Indian Railways. A train’s momentum usually allows it to continue moving through neutral zones.

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