Power cut knocks out Berlin’s S-Bahn trains

15/12/11 22:10 CET

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Berlin’s urban fast train network was brought to a halt on Thursday by a power cut at a control centre.

Thousand of passengers were affected by the latest in a series of technical problems to have hit the German capital’s S-Bahn light rail system over the years.

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