According to an Indian press report, there are nine deaths every day on local suburban lines. Mumtaz Kazi Khathawala - described as the first woman to drive trains in the country - applied brakes when...
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Eight coaches of the Jammu-Tata Nagar Muri express derailed in Uttar Pradesh on 25 May. One woman died in the accident. The accident occurred some 170km from Lucknow, between Sirathu and Atsarai in...
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A fallen tree on the track is believed to have been the cause of a derailment on India’s North-East Frontier Railway on 23 May. The locomotive and five coaches of the Guwahati-Siphung express...
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Eighteen people were reported hurt on 12 May, five seriously, when bombs exploded at 04:00 aboard a Sealdah-Krishnanagar local train as it entered Barrackpore station, about 25km north of Kolkata....
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The Faridpur Express in Bangladesh made a scheduled stop at Rajbari around breakfast time on 12 April. Apparently the driver alighted; reportedly he was chewing beetle leaf on the platform. To his...
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The report on an incident in India a year ago highlights the importance of fast rescue action following an accident. On 20 March 2014, five coaches in a local train from Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji...
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The locomotive and two coaches of India's Dehradun-Varanasi Janata Express derailed on 20 March at the Bachhrawan station in Raebareli, about 50km from Lucknow, the state capital of Uttar Pradesh....
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On 13 February, nine coaches of India's Ernakulam-bound intercity express derailed near Anekal in the Bangalore urban district of Karnataka. Ten people died and more than 150 were reported injured....
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In another tragic Friday the thirteenth railway accident, the locomotive and ten coaches of the Bangalore-Ernakulam intercity Express derailed at Belagondapalli near Anekal in India. Early reports...
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Local rail accidents in Mumbai - including suicides - claimed nine lives and eight people were injured per day in 2014. A total of 2,221 deaths occurred on the Central Railway (CR) and 1,202 on the...
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