YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) – Services resumed Sunday after over 1,000 passengers were trapped for nearly two hours in a train Saturday night near Tokyo, with some complaining of heatstroke and hyperventilation after it crashed into a power pole that had fallen onto the tracks, local authorities said.
2h delayed in an overheating train? Deutsche Bahn / German Railway calls that Sunday.
laughs in Boston, Massachusetts
We just set our trains on fire over here. Why wait for passive overheating?
California Zephyr, the flagship passenger route between Chicago and San Francisco has an average delay of 17 hours
Whereas over here, JR once apologized for a train leaving 20 seconds early.
Deutsche Bahn doesn’t even count anything under 6 minutes as delay.
Huh. I’ve spent only 0.035% of my life in Japan, but I was on that train (or at least that line) last year. Glad nobody was seriously hurt.
The odds… Glad you were safe too.
TBF the train to Haneda on my exit was delayed by two hours, also. But that was due to a couple of drunk caucasians running around on the tracks.
