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Civil defence workers rescued 61 passengers from a blocked train in the north.

Rail services were cancelled as trees and branches blocked train lines.

Transit and block train traffic has been subject to competition since the signing of the 2001 agreement.

Rail services have resumed after protesters earlier blocked train tracks.

Protesters also blocked trains, causing delays for thousands of people.

Another hot spot was Turin, where students blocked train tracks and occupied a university building, the report said.

Union protesters blocked trains and repeatedly faced arrest despite the warnings of a federal judge.

Commuters incensed at a rise in fares block train tracks.

Railroad workers have begun blocking trains by sitting or lying on tracks at train depots.

For block trains, the amount of the compensation shall not exceed 25% of the transport price.

In Romania, television showed traffic jams on snow-covered roads and blocked trains.

It is an intermodal operator in Europe, operating a fleet of block trains linking 30 countries.

Justification "Wagonload" covers both "single wagon load" and "block trains".

Crowds carrying flags blocked trains by standing on the tracks and burning effigies representing the government.

The lift train would be released as soon as the C block train was clear of the brake.

Authorities accused union protesters last year of blocking trains, breaking into the grain terminal and causing damage to the facility.

In recent weeks, demonstrators demanding electricity have blocked trains carrying the country's main export, bauxite, to port.

French authorities have blocked trains carrying migrants from Ventimiglia, the last Italian town before the southern border.

ICE 2 trains usually run on the main east-west line, starting in Berlin with two unit block train.

When about 5000 striking workers in Mayavaram lay on the tracks blocking trains, the police arrested nine workers and stopped the train.

Last week, residents of a Colombo suburb stormed a police station and blocked trains to protest the killing of two men.

Belgian workers with flares demonstrate on rail tracks and block trains (Photo: Reuters).

Protesters have blocked trains in Nellore and roads and highways in other districts.

Justification To avoid legal confusion, as "block trains organised around a central hub" does not correspond to any legal definition.

This was achieved with block trains running regularly from Somerton to Canberra on the standard gauge line.

It is a diesel multiple unit train of up to six cars.

The move involved more than 120 moving vans, a unit train and several aircraft.

Electric multiple unit trains began to service the station from November 2001.

These were designed to run as either two- or three-car multiple unit trains.

Unit trains are typically used for the transportation of bulk goods.

Showing the multiple unit train standing at a station.

The built-in multiple unit train control is designed to operate up to three units.

An experimental 6-car multiple unit train of these was rebuilt from earlier electric stock.

The Granger unit train still continued to play a major role, but on a lesser scale.

The line is most noted for the presence of heavy taconite unit trains.

All multiple unit trains have local door switches, located in various locations.

He is also responsible for many modern day ideas including the unit train and remote control locomotives.

The trials were a success, and multiple unit trains were running by 1903.

No shunting takes place at intermediate stations and it is usually a unit train.

Again you have a choice of schedules for loco-hauled or multiple units trains.

The station is served by Metlink's electric multiple unit trains.

The company also gets incentives from the railways for loading unit trains of 50 and 100 cars.

These wagons are often seen in unit trains being used to remove excavated material from major construction sites.

The majority of Commuter services are operated by diesel multiple unit train sets.

In 1958 driver training on new diesel multiple unit trains took place on the line.

Trains with only one type of freight are usually called unit trains.

Series circuits were formerly used for lighting in electric multiple unit trains.

Most of the services on the line are now operated by bi-directional diesel multiple unit trains.

Bell codes are used on multiple unit trains for communication between drivers and guards.

Unloading a unit train takes about three hours.