Staff works beside railroad tracks as an IT failure at Lufthansa stranded passengers and forced flights to Germany's busiest airport to be canceled or diverted in Frankfurt, Germany, February 15, 2023, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. REUTERS/Timm Reichert 

Staff works beside railroad tracks as an IT failure at Lufthansa stranded passengers and forced flights to Germany's busiest airport to be canceled or diverted in Frankfurt, Germany, February 15, 2023, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. REUTERS/Timm Reichert 

Staff works beside railroad tracks as an IT failure at Lufthansa stranded passengers and forced flights to Germany's busiest airport to be canceled or diverted in Frankfurt, Germany, February 15, 2023, with the airline blaming botched railway engineering works that damaged broadband cables. REUTERS/Timm Reichert 

Repairs are made to train tracks and overhead cables on the train line to Belgorod, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, close to the Russian border in Slatyne, Ukraine, October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne 

Tourists stand on a terrace at the Eigergletscher railway and cable car station near Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland June 28, 2021. Picture taken June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

Tourists stand at the Eigergletscher railway and cable car station near Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland June 28, 2021. Picture taken June 28, 2021. Arnd Wiegmann 

A view shows the Eiger Glacier above the Eigergletscher railway and cable car station near Kleine Scheidegg, Switzerland June 28, 2021. Picture taken June 28, 2021. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

A damaged cable is seen on a railway track as a man sorts out recyclable material near a vandalized train station in Soweto's Kliptown, South Africa, October 19, 2020. Picture taken October 19, 2020. REUTERS /Siphiwe Sibeko 

Train coaches are seen as people walk near vandalized cables at Braamfontein Station, in Braamfontein, South Africa, October 20, 2020. Picture taken October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko 

People pull a cable at the vandalized train station in Soweto's Kliptown, South Africa, October 19, 2020. Picture taken October 19, 2020. REUTERS /Siphiwe Sibeko 

A man dismantles cables at Soweto's Kliptown train station, South Africa, October 19, 2020. Picture taken October 19, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko 

Pople walk along a rail line with downtown Santiago in the background during a fall day, following outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Santiago, Chile March 24, 2020. Picture taken March 24, 2020. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado 

Codogno's train station, which was closed by authorities blocking public transport due to a coronavirus outbreak, is seen empty in Codogno, Italy, February 22, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo 

Workers place cables on the construction site of the new 2.7 kilometres/1.68 miles long dual-track Boezberg railway tunnel near Schinznach Dorf, Switzerland April, 1, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann 

The Digswell Viaduct, also known as Welwyn Viaduct, a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram is seen in Digswell, Britain, November 16, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra 

The Digswell Viaduct, also known as Welwyn Viaduct, a railway viaduct that carries the East Coast Main Line over the River Mimram is seen in Digswell, Britain, November 16, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Cziborra 

A train passes near a powerplant's chimney in Skopje, Macedonia, October 30, 2018. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski 

An overturned train is seen in Yilan, Taiwan October 21, 2018. REUTERS/Lee Kun Han 

A general view of the Bagistas train station near the eastern Anatolian city of Erzincan, Turkey, March 28, 2018. REUTERS/Umit Bektas 

Empty railway tracks are seen at a marshalling yard in Sotteville-Les-Rouen, near Rouen, France, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer 

Riot policemen guard train tracks which are used to transport garbage, to prevent barricades from locals protesting against the new industrial waste processing facility that is being constructed in Til Til, Chile, August 15, 2017. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado SEARCH "TIL TIL" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

An empty train station is seen in Tovarnik, Croatia, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic SEARCH "MIGRANTS ROUTES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

An empty train station is seen in Tovarnik, Croatia, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic SEARCH "MIGRANTS ROUTES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

An empty train station is seen in Tovarnik, Croatia, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic SEARCH "MIGRANTS ROUTES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

An empty train station is seen in Tovarnik, Croatia, May 27, 2016. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic SEARCH "MIGRANTS ROUTES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Railway workers remove the overhead electricity cables at the site of a collision of two passenger trains near Palwal in the northern state of Haryana, India, December 8, 2015. A local passenger train collided with another on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring dozens, local media reported. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee 

A migrant charges his mobile phone at the railway station in Vienna, Austria, September 1, 2015. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Women labourers work at the construction site of a road in Kolkata January 8, 2015. Across towns and cities in India, it is not uncommon to see women cleaning building sites, carrying bricks and or shoveling gravel - helping construct the infrastructure necessary for the country's economic and social development. They help build roads, railway tracks, airports, and offices. They lay pipes for clean water supplies, cables for telecommunications, and dig the drains for sewage systems. But although women make up at least 20 percent of India's 40 million construction workers, they are less recognized than male workers with lower pay and often prone to safety hazards and sexual harassment. They are often unaware of their rights or scared to complain, say activists now trying to campaign for better treatment of women in the construction industry. To match story INDIA-WOMEN/CONSTRUCTION Picture taken January 8, 2015. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A worker carries a cable reel next to the railway tracks in the NEAT Gotthard Base tunnel near Amsteg September 3, 2014. Crossing the Alps, the world's longest train tunnel should become operational at the end of 2016. The project consists of two parallel single track tunnels, each of a length of 57 km (35 miles). The tunnel will open in 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich (SWITZERLAND - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORT) 

A man and children look at Russian tanks on freight cars after their arrival in Crimea in the settlement of Gvardeiskoye near the Crimean city of Simferopol March 31, 2014. Russia is withdrawing a motorized infantry battalion from a region near Ukraine's eastern border, the Russian Defence Ministry was quoted as saying by state news agencies on Monday. The United States says progress on resolving the East-West stand-off over Ukraine depends on Russia pulling back troops massed on the border. It was not clear whether other troops would pull back or had already withdrawn. REUTERS/Stringer (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) 

Workers carry a piece of the broken metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, in the western German town of Wuppertal north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

A piece of metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, hangs down from a stranded carriage, in the western German town of Wuppertal, north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

A piece of metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, hangs down from a stranded carriage, in the western German town of Wuppertal, north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

A piece of metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, hangs down from a stranded carriage, in the western German town of Wuppertal, north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

A piece of metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, hangs down from a stranded carriage, in the western German town of Wuppertal, north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

A piece of metal power line from the world famous historic Wuppertal Schwebebahn, an elevated monorail train, hangs down from a stranded carriage, in the western German town of Wuppertal, north of Cologne October 18, 2013. Some 100 meters of power line fell down from the suspension railway onto the road below on Thursday evening bringing the cable car to an abrupt halt. No one was injured in the accident but some 80 passengers had to be roped down by firefighters. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER TRANSPORT) 

Commuters ride a train during rush hour on Southeast Asia's first light rail transit (LRT) network, which is 29-years-old, in Manila October 10, 2013. Images of a portion of the Philippines' oldest light rail transit line ablaze in the middle of the night were exactly what private sector bidders for a $1.4 billion rehabilitation of the country's rail system had feared. The fire last week, caused by a short circuit that ignited power cables lining the tracks, was the second on Manila's elevated rail system in two months and one of many mishaps in its 29-year life - telltale signs that Southeast Asia's first light rail transit (LRT) network is in dire need of an upgrade. To match Insight PHILIPPINES-ECONOMY/ Picture taken October 10, 2013. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT) 

Workers inspect tracks on the railway of Southeast Asia's first light rail transit (LRT) network, which is 29-years-old, in Manila October 10, 2013. Images of a portion of the Philippines' oldest light rail transit line ablaze in the middle of the night were exactly what private sector bidders for a $1.4 billion rehabilitation of the country's rail system had feared. To match Insight PHILIPPINES-ECONOMY/ Picture taken October 10, 2013. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS TRANSPORT) 

A man walks along the platform of the Sochi train station in central Sochi September 18, 2013. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov (RUSSIA - Tags: SOCIETY SPORT OLYMPICS TRANSPORT) 

Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (SMRT) officials investigate the cause of a fire that was extinguished at Newton train station in Singapore February 13, 2013. A cable caught fire during rush hour in the tunnel at the station causing train services to be disrupted on Wednesday morning. No casualties were reported according to local media. REUTERS/Edgar Su (SINGAPORE - Tags: TRANSPORT) 

Maintenance workers Vasile Kieltsch (L) and Markus Maier carry out an inspection on the 'Wallbergbahn' cable railway's steel cable at the Wallberg mountain in Rottach-Egern near Tegernsee November 20, 2012. Twice a year in the autumn and spring the 'Wallbergbahn' undergoes a full maintenance review. It takes up to three weeks to inspect the 5000 metres of steel cable, 50 cabins, engine rooms, valley station and mountain station. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY - Tags: SOCIETY) 

Pedestrians stand in the rain while waiting for a cable car on the California Street line in San Francisco, California April 10, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TRAVEL) 

A cable car passes the Wells Fargo Bank headquarters in the Financial District in San Francisco, California March 28, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS) 

Mary Washington looks on near the California Street cable car line before boarding a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) train for her Oakland home, in San Francisco, California January 5, 2012. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT) 

Workmen hang from the power lines for a new railway line under construction, located on the outskirts of Beijing, November 22, 2011. Rail construction in China is facing funding shortages due to credit curbs and uncertain policy after a fatal train crash in July, China Daily reported on Wednesday. REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT TRANSPORT) 

A street vendor carries balloons as he walks at a railway track near the Manggarai train station in Jakarta October 26, 2011. PT KAI spokesperson Mateta Rizalulhaq said the state railway operator had cancelled more than 29 scheduled train services, from October 19 to November 29, to accommodate an upgrade of three electrical substations along the line. REUTERS/Beawiharta (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TRANSPORT BUSINESS) 

Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading on Germany's highest mountain, the 2,962 metre (9,718 feet) Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen August 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 995 meters long rope to break his own world record, as part of a charity event. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY - Tags: SOCIETY ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE: ALSO SEE GM1E78N0FI002 

The nonworking cable cars at Tegelberg mountain are pictured in Schwangau near Fuessen August 13, 2011. All 20 people trapped in a gondola that dangled up to 80 metres in the air for more than 18 hours near the castle Neuschwanstein were rescued with helicopters, local media reported. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle (GERMANY - Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY) 

A train leaves the Rio Tinto Parker point iron ore facility in Dampier in the Pilbara region of Western Australia April 20, 2011. Australia, with a population of 21.8 million, does not have the workforce to exploit its enormous natural bounty. The mining and resources industry, including oil and gas, has more than $400 billion in new projects on the drawing board in Australia and will need another roughly 70,000 workers over the next five years alone, according to government estimates. Picture taken April 20, 2011. To match Special Report AUSTRALIA/LABOUR REUTERS/Daniel Munoz (AUSTRALIA - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS ENERGY POLITICS TRANSPORT) 

Rail tracks and signals are pictured at Hamburg's main railway station February 21, 2011. German train drivers' union GDL called off a rail warning strike for Monday. GDL is demanding that Germany's 26,000 train drivers receive a unified pay level, as well as a five percent rise. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS SOCIETY) 

A cable car replica tour bus transports San Francisco Giants players through a sea of confetti during a victory parade for the World Series champions in San Francisco, California November 3, 2010. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SPORT BASEBALL TRANSPORT TRAVEL) 

A technician repairs wires after a fire at the track of the S-Bahn commuter train in Berlin, November 2, 2010. German anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday took responsibility for setting a small fire in a Berlin rail station during rush hour on Monday that caused widespread disruption to commuters throughout the capital. The fire attack on a power cable in an S-Bahn rail station came just days before many thousands of anti-nuclear activists are expected to protest on Nov. 5-8 against the transport of nuclear waste to a dump in the northern town of Gorleben. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST) 

Sooted covers of cable channels lie at the site where a fire damaged wires of a S-Bahn commuter train line in Berlin, November 2, 2010. German anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday took responsibility for setting a small fire in a Berlin rail station during rush hour on Monday that caused widespread disruption to commuters throughout the capital. The fire attack on a power cable in an S-Bahn rail station came just days before many thousands of anti-nuclear activists are expected to protest on Nov. 5-8 against the transport of nuclear waste to a dump in the northern town of Gorleben. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Technicians repair wires after a fire at the track of the S-Bahn commuter train in Berlin, November 2, 2010. German anti-nuclear activists on Tuesday took responsibility for setting a small fire in a Berlin rail station during rush hour on Monday that caused widespread disruption to commuters throughout the capital. The fire attack on a power cable in an S-Bahn rail station came just days before many thousands of anti-nuclear activists are expected to protest on Nov. 5-8 against the transport of nuclear waste to a dump in the northern town of Gorleben. REUTERS/Thomas Peter (GERMANY - Tags: TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST) 

A labourer sleeps in a roll of underground cables at a construction site in Jammu September 20, 2010. India is planning to spend $1.5 trillion on infrastructure in the ten years to 2017 to overhaul its creaking road, railway and power sectors, long seen as a drag on growth in Asia's third-largest economy. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: BUSINESS ENERGY EMPLOYMENT IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Migrant labourers work at a construction site for a railway in Shanghai July 27, 2010. Not all the loans to local government financing vehicles that Chinese banks have identified as being at risk of default will in fact turn sour, a source at China's banking regulator said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Aly Song(CHINA - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) 

A policeman gives a thumbs-up as "terrorists" are cable-tied during a simulated attack at a train station in Singapore early July 7, 2009. Singapore held its biggest anti-terror drill on Monday, simulating the deadly Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people last year, ahead of hosting an Asia-Pacific summit in November. Exercise North Star VII will involve 2,000 participants from 15 state agencies and media outlets and simulate situations such as concerted terror attacks on hotels, malls and an underground train station, the Singapore Police Force said in a statement. REUTERS/Edgar Su (SINGAPORE CRIME LAW POLITICS MILITARY) 

A truck drives over generators buried under the road during a simulation of piezoelectric production at the Technion Institute of Technology in the northern Israeli city of Haifa March 8, 2009. Innowattech, an energy company affiliated with Israel's Technion Institute of Technology, said special generators placed under roads, railways and runways can harvest enough energy from passing vehicles to mass-produce electricity. Picture taken March 8, 2009. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen (ISRAEL SCI TECH ENERGY BUSINESS) 

Workers of Electricite de France (EDF) repair damaged cables caused by a winter storm in Bayonne, January 25, 2009. Winds of up to 190 km an hour paralysed southwest France, cutting power supplies to around 1.7 million homes and closed roads, railways and airports. The French weather agency Meteo France placed the region on red alert and asked residents to stay indoors for their own safety. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE) 

Workers of Electricite de France (EDF) repair damaged cables caused by a winter storm in Bayonne, January 25, 2009. Winds of up to 190 km an hour paralysed southwest France, cutting power supplies to around 1.7 million homes and closed roads, railways and airports. The French weather agency Meteo France placed the region on red alert and asked residents to stay indoors for their own safety. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau (FRANCE)