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By Bidisha Saha, Dipti Yadav: Following the Odisha train accident, the focus shifts to asking the necessary questions. India Today's OSINT team compares safety features on Indian railways with those in other countries. The crumbled train coaches have now been cleared and the jumbled tracks straightened after workers tirelessly laboured to restore the broken link of the South Eastern Railway, a crucial network for millions of daily-wage workers who travel cheaply on superfast trains that cut across economic capitals. Officials have focussed the investigation into the cause of the crash, saying that while they were looking into the malfunction of an electronic signalling system, they cannot rule out human error - or sabotage. A preliminary government report described it as a "three-way accident" that involved two passenger trains and a stationary cargo train. What Really Happened? The Coromandel Express, about 270 km from Kolkata, with 1250 passengers onboard, was crossing the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore, running at a speed of about 128 kilometres per hour (kmph); it did not have a scheduled stop there. At the same time, the Yesvantpur-Howrah Superfast Express, with 1,039 passengers onboard, was exiting the station and heading in the opposite direction. At about 7 pm, the Coromandel Express approaching from the north suddenly entered the loop railway line where a freight train loaded with heavy iron ore was standing. Odisha train crash explained: How tragedy unfolded ...