Close shave for passengers in Mumbai
Mumbai : PASSENGERS on the 6351 Mumbai-CST Nagercoil Express had a close shave after its alert driver stopped the train on seeing an obstruction lying on the track that could have derailed the speeding express train between Sion and Kurla stations on Saturday afternoon.
The incident occurred at 12:40pm. The equipment lying on the track got entangled with the wheels of the engine and got stuck, blocking the entire line for nearly two hours. The train moved ahead after the engine was replaced.
While eyewitnesses claimed there was a six-metre piece of stray rail track that was being pulled by workers across the rails, officials said there was some maintenance equipment that was lying there.
"There was such a huge noise that we thought there was a derailment. Some workers were pulling a stray rail piece across the track. They heard the horn of the approaching train and abandoned the piece on the track itself and ran away. The train's alert driver, applied brakes and halted the train just in the nick of time, but the engine's wheels got stuck," S. Gupta, an eyewitness told 'Railway Samachar'.
"A major disaster was averted today. The railways should do such things during the mega block period," Gupta added
The railways have recently begun a drive to clear abandoned pieces of rails that have been lying near running tracks.
Central Railway's spokesperson Ashok Singh said the railways have ordered an departmental inquiry into the incident. "There was some railway material lying in the track which got entangled in the wheels of the engine," he confirmed.
The incident occurred at 12:40pm. The equipment lying on the track got entangled with the wheels of the engine and got stuck, blocking the entire line for nearly two hours. The train moved ahead after the engine was replaced.
While eyewitnesses claimed there was a six-metre piece of stray rail track that was being pulled by workers across the rails, officials said there was some maintenance equipment that was lying there.
"There was such a huge noise that we thought there was a derailment. Some workers were pulling a stray rail piece across the track. They heard the horn of the approaching train and abandoned the piece on the track itself and ran away. The train's alert driver, applied brakes and halted the train just in the nick of time, but the engine's wheels got stuck," S. Gupta, an eyewitness told 'Railway Samachar'.
"A major disaster was averted today. The railways should do such things during the mega block period," Gupta added
The railways have recently begun a drive to clear abandoned pieces of rails that have been lying near running tracks.
Central Railway's spokesperson Ashok Singh said the railways have ordered an departmental inquiry into the incident. "There was some railway material lying in the track which got entangled in the wheels of the engine," he confirmed.
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