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The 565 UP Patna-Buxar EMU train had on Tuesday suddenly stopped after some passengers pulled the alarm chain to stop it near the Raghunathpur station on the Howrah-Delhi Main Line route. Then the driver of the train requested the passengers to push the train because there was no way out to restart it as it stopped in the neutral zone - that is, between the two power sub-stations - where there was no power supply.

Hundreds of passengers pushed the train for 60 metres, heaving and weighing from behind and the sides of the train, under a hot summer sun.

"Though a rare instance in railways history, it did happen," a railway official confirmed.

IMO: In May in UP, temperatures are maximum. Quite an achievement.