800 tourists stranded on Penang Hill

Nightmare on the hill: Visitors waiting to be rescued at the Penang hilltop station.

GEORGE TOWN: It was a long night for about 800 holidaymakers who got stranded on Penang Hill after the funicular train broke down at the Middle Station.

Some of them had to trudge down the hill while others were taken to the Botanical Gardens where four Rapid Penang buses were waiting to ferry them.