Emergency procedures where put into effect when two railway wagons loaded with bombs, for conveyance to ministry of defence stores, derailed at a factory in Khamaria, Jabalpur. Emergency services...
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The derailing of a Khurda-bound goods train between the Garividi and Cheepurupalli stations on 21 December disrupted train services in the Visakhapatnam-Palasa area. Some trains were cancelled, others...
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The Chennai Egmore-Mangalore Express derailed five coaches at Puvanur in Vriddhachalam. At least 38 passengers were injured near Cuddalore, about 200km from Chennai. Services were badly disrupted...
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Three wagons of a Delhi-Jammu goods train derailed at Kathie on 24 August, disrupting traffic between Jammu and Pathankote. Nobody was reported hurt in the accident, which occurred near Kathua...
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Traffic on the Jammu-Pathankote line was disrupted following the derailing of three freight wagons at Kathua. The train was on its way from Delhi to Jammu. Fortunately it was moving slowly and there...
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Late on 4 August, the Kamayani Express from Mumbai to Varanasi derailed 12 coaches near Harda in Madhya Pradesh. At about the same time, the Janata Express – travelling in the opposite direction -...
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The majority of railway accidents (61.6%) were
due to falls from trains or trains hitting people on the tracks (17,480 out of
28,360 cases). Altogether, rail accidents claimed 25,006 lives in...
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On 12 July, an empty commuter train overran the end of the dead-end platform 10 line at Kolkata’s Sealdah station, and two coaches derailed. It is suspected that the shunter driving the set...
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Press reports spoke of commuter “panic” on 28 June when a Mumbai local electric multiple-unit set crashed into and partially overrode the buffers on the dead-end platform 3 track at...
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Nearly 70 metres of track were damaged in the explosion of a remotely controlled bomb near Bhittai Town in Jacobabad on 6 June. Four coaches in the Jaffar Express (Quetta-Rawalpindi) came off the...
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