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Where else in India would human grunt power be deployed to push along a broken down train? In a super-human showing of passenger power, commuters push their broken-down train to the next station! It was a unique scene when passengers of a railbus, that plies between Mathura and Vrindavan, pushed it to start its engine, near Mathura station. The one-coach railbus’s engine developed a technical snag and stopped near Masani station after which, on the suggestion of driver, the passengers tried to start the engine by pushing it for around a half a kilometre but failed as the problem was major. Plying on meter gauge, the railbus comes under North Central Railway and halts at all the stations on the 12 km stretch. On several occasions, the railbus is cancelled without any prior information and t
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