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Snapped power lines disrupts rail services

TAINAN, Taiwan -- Snapped power lines blocked railroad traffic near Tainan City yesterday. Both tracks returned to normal operation at 9:35 p.m. after blockage of two-way traffic.

The accident occurred at 5:40 p.m., when the snapping stopped a Tzu Chiang express between Tahu and Luchu, both in Kaohsiung County only some 25 kilometers south of Tainan City.

Two-way traffic was blocked for an hour, a spokesman for the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) said.

The express train was on the eastern rail line, and a diesel locomotive had to be dispatched to tow it back to Kaohsiung, said the spokesman.

Emergency repairs reopened the suspended traffic on the western rail line. “It was reopened at 6:40 p.m.,” the TRA spokesman added. The eastern rail line was reopened at 9:35 p.m.

An investigation is under way to find out the cause of the snapping of the power lines, the spokesman said.

Railroad repairmen are working around the clock to get the eastern rail line open to traffic again.

“We are not certain,” the TRA spokesman said, “how long it’s going to take to reopen it to traffic.”

He could not say how many train runs would be affected by the blocked eastern rail line. “We are estimating the adverse effects,” he stressed.

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