BHOPAL: An assistant sub-inspector lost his arm, and a constable sustained injuries while attempting to retrieve the bodies of two passengers who fell from a moving train and died on the tracks in Damoh district, Madhya Pradesh. The incident occurred around 8pm on Sunday at the Bandakpur railway station when ASI Rajendra Mishra, along with…
CHENNAI: NIA is investigating whether sabotage caused the Mysuru-Darbhanga Bagmati Express to veer off the main line and collide with a parked goods train Friday night at Kavarapettai station, 40km north of Chennai. The collision injured eight people and overturned 12 coaches.There were no casualties, as the coupling of the advanced Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB)…
BHOPAL: A disaster was averted when an express train suddenly lurched and tilted in MPs Morena district as soil under a large stretch of tracks gave way on Saturday morning.Thankfully, there was just enough to stop the train from toppling over. Though there were many skipped heartbeats on the Chhattisgarh Express (Amritsar to Bilaspur), no…
NEW DELHI: In a sharp critique of the Uttar Pradesh government‘s decision to rename seven railway stations in the Northern Railways, Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav took to social media to slam the administration, urging them to prioritise railway safety over name changes.In his post on X (formerly Twitter), Yadav wrote, “And when you get…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Commission of Railway Safety (CRS), in its provisional findings in the Kanchanjunga Express accident that claimed 10 lives, has pointed to wrong authority letters issued to loco pilots on how to negotiate defective signals and lapses at “multiple levels” in train operations following failure of automatic signals.In its report to the Railway Board,…
NEW DELHI: The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS), probing the reason behind Kanchanjunga Express’s fatal collision with a goods train, shared provisional findings highlighting multiple lapses in the signalling and operating procedures that led to the accident.In the findings released on Tuesday, it has been mentioned that the loco pilot and assistant loco pilot of…
