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Services resume after over 1,000 trapped in train near Tokyo (mainichi.jp)

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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.

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[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

laughs in Boston, Massachusetts

We just set our trains on fire over here. Why wait for passive overheating?

[–] SomeRandomWords@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

They don't call it the Orange Line because of the color of the trains, instead it's because when they're actually running you see can see the orange flames! /s

In fairness the new ones don't catch fire nearly as often as the old ones did.