Every train crossing the local railway station was crammed with eclipse watchers from all over Bihar.
Sure, having it near can keep me from the vagaries of boredom when stuck at a train crossing or in a waiting room, but it can also lead me to do hideous things like check Twitter when I really should be playing with my kids.
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At 1811 GMT the train initiated the crossing sequence for the Ufton crossing.
Dennis France, 65, died when his car was hit by a train at Athelney crossing, near Taunton, on 21 March.
Only a year after the Tay Bridge was completed, it collapsed during a storm while a passenger train carrying an estimated 75 people was crossing, plunging the train into the sea below and killing all on board.
Enke, 32, was struck by a train at a level crossing near Hanover.
Two people have died in a crash involving their car and a train on a level crossing in North East Lincolnshire.
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In 2008, Jean Hoggart, 56, and her seven-year-old grandson Mikey Dawson died after being hit by a train at the same crossing.
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Tributes have been paid by the families of two men who were killed when their car was hit by a train on a level crossing near Grimsby.
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In 1982 a train hit a bus when crossing a railway track, killing 39 people.
February 1996: Train hits truck on level crossing killing 11 people 90 kilometres north of Cairo.
In November 2008, Jean Hoggart, 56, and her seven-year-old grandson Mikey Dawson were killed by a train at the same level crossing.
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In 2004, seven people died in a derailment at the level crossing when a train hit a stationary car on the track.
The family of a man killed when the car he was in was struck by a train on a Oxfordshire level crossing said he was "kind, generous and gentle".
The crossing sequence should be automatically started by the approaching train, but the RAIB report said that "on this occasion the crossing closure sequence commenced earlier".
This past December, a Metro-North train struck a car at a grade crossing in Redding, Conn.
Network Rail and one of its signalmen have been fined for failing to ensure the safety of a woman killed when a train hit a car at a level crossing.
April 1995: A train and a bus collide on a level crossing in Nile Delta, killing 49.
An investigation is under way after a train collided with a car on a level crossing in Pembrokeshire.
The MacKays' car collided with a train at an unmanned, gate-free crossing.
The barriers at a level crossing where two men died when a train hit their car appear to have been working correctly, police have said.
Police are continuing to investigate how a car came to be on a Oxfordshire level crossing when it was struck by a train killing an elderly passenger.
Days later the country suffered another tragedy when 31 people died and 66 were injured when an express train ploughed into a bus which had stalled on a level crossing in southern Russia.
In North Yorkshire, a driver escaped uninjured after his car was hit by a train when it skidded on snow and onto rail tracks at a level crossing near Selby.
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It explained that this was "because the previous train, an engineers' on-track machine, had passed through the crossing in the opposite direction to normal".
Dharmesh Patel noticed on CCTV that a van had "zipped" under a level crossing gate but could not get through the next barrier as a train approached.
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"The cause of the accident was that the signaller raised the barriers in error when the train was approaching and too close to be able to stop before reaching the level crossing, " the report said.
But Mr Darling said such a system still might not have averted the crash as the driver might not have been able to stop the train in time, even if he had been alerted to the car on the crossing.
In 2004 a train derailed there, killing seven, and in May a man on a moped died on the level crossing.
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Earlier, he made clear that thought his unions viewed plans to train troops to use red fire engines as "desperate measures", firefighters would not block them from crossing their picket lines.
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