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There's a classic that Irish rail used to pull out of their bag of shite excuses until they got slagged to death over it:
Leaves on the track.
No joke. C'mon now lads. In fairness though the train service in Dublin and inter-city is pretty reliable and reasonable.
Sounds like the Irish version of the german winter chaos. The very moment the first snowflake drops it's total chaos, trains being terminated left and right due to an old railway switch that still saw Adolf freezing shut again.
My understanding is that leaves contain some compound(s) that, when wet and under the extremely high pressures that train wheels provide, becomes one of the most effective lubricants we know about. In other words, the brakes literally won't do anything because you'll slip-n-slide your way at the same speed you were going before.