Rail traffic disrupted by cold snap

Rail traffic in central Bohemia was badly disrupted on Monday by problems relating to the cold snap. Trains in an out of Prague were at a standstill for over two hours as maintenance workers fixed rail tracks damaged by the arctic temperatures. Czech Railways says that all tracks are now functional but the morning fall-out is likely to affect schedules for a few more hours. Temperatures fell to record lows at 75 monitoring stations over the weekend and the frost is reported to have caused extensive damages, leaving many people without heating and water.