The train got underway Friday morning, 15 hours after it was forced to stop because of snow
About 430 people were stuck on a train overnight in Japan by heavy snow that blanketed much of the country’s Japan Sea coast, a railway official said Friday.
The train started moving again shortly before 10:30 a.m., about 15 hours after it had been forced to stop the previous evening, said Shinichi Seki, a spokesman for the Niigata branch of JR East railway company.
The four-car train departed Niigata city in heavy snow Thursday at 4:25 p.m., more than an hour behind schedule, Seki said. As the snow accumulated, the train’s wheels couldn’t turn anymore, and it stopped between stations about 7 p.
