Signal system error caused deadly India train accident, official says The error caused a train in India to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train on Friday night. Jun 4, 2023 2 struck, killed by Amtrak train in Pennsylvania ...
Death toll in train accident in eastern India reaches 105, officials say
Nearly 300 killed in one of India's deadliest train accidents Footage from the accident site showed bodies lined up on tracks and the injured being shifted to hospitals while rescuers desperately looked through the overturned and jumbled metal train compartments. ...
A malfunction with the signal system is suspected to have led to the accident. The driver of the Coromandel Express was routed to continue straight on the main line with a green signal, but the track diverted the train to the loop track. The engine climbed on the last coach of the freigh...
NEW DELHI -- The death toll in Friday's fatal train accident has been revised to 275, said a top government official of India's eastern state of Odisha on Sunday. "The death toll is 275 and not 288. The data was checked by the District Magistrate, and it was found that some bodies...
India's worst rail accident was in 1981, when at least 800 people died after seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train blew off the track and into a river during a cyclone near the Nepal border. Run by state monopoly Indian Railways, the network is the fourth largest in the world ...
At least 123 trains scheduled to pass through Odisha were either cancelled or delayed after the accident. The disruption led air fares to Odisha to spike, prompting India's civil aviation ministry to warn airlines over abnormal surges in pricing. Some train traffic has been restored on t...
In a media statement, Eastern Railways said that a probe has been ordered into the incident and the driver and the train's guard have been suspended, pending inquiry. Some local trains were cancelled due to the accident, it added.
Another senior Indian Railways official Vijay Kumar told the media in Delhi that the cause of the accident was not known immediately, but a probe has been ordered. "An investigation will be carried out soon to ascertain the exact reason for the mishap," he said. ...
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