Sentence examples for stranded train from inspiring English sources

The stranded train "is set-in and would require digging out", the train operator added.

It temporarily trapped coal miners, stranded train passengers and caused huge traffic jams in the nation's capital.

"This is outrageous," Sheribel Rothenberg, 65, of Chicago, said Saturday afternoon in a telephone interview from the stranded train.

The stranded train finally started moving at about 11 25 a.m., with a conducting telling passengers: "There is light at the end of the tunnel".

A 31-year-old female passenger was treated for exposure at a Brooklyn hospital after being removed from a stranded train around 3 a.m.

Passengers spent more than 17 hours on the stranded train until they were taken to a hotel late Saturday to spend the night.

Many complained about the conditions on the stranded trains.

According to Xinhua, the government news agency, about 100 diesel locomotives were sent to help restore the stranded trains to service.

Officials at New York City Transit said they could not provide an exact count of stranded trains, but a spokesman said there were at least four episodes on the A line in the Rockaways and five stalled N trains in southern Brooklyn.

Snowdrifts up to four feet high saturated the electrified third rail on some stretches of outdoor track, officials said, making it difficult to dispatch rescue crews to the stranded trains.

"What happened before you had that is someone was overloaded; they were worried about moving trains, worried about other things," Mr. Prendergast said, adding that now, advocates are responsible for "the care and well-being of those people on stranded trains".