Vande bharat express accident

PATIALA: A three-year-old girl died after being hit by Vande Bharat Express train near Kiratpur Sahib in Punjab’s Ropar district on Tuesday morning. The Government Railway Police (GRP) officers reached the spot after receiving the information about the accident. The GRP officers said the deceased girl identified as Khusi (3) followed her father Vikas, a street vendor, who crossed the track. However, Vikas was unaware of his daughter following him. The police claimed that the driver of the train honked thrice but the child could not understand following which a part of the speeding train hit the girl leaving her dead on the spot.

The Vande Bharat Express train running on the Mumbai-Gandhinagar route has been in three accidents in the first month after its launch. All three incidents were caused by cattleon tracks. Considering the frequency of the accidents and the reason behind them. Western Railway has warned cattle owners in the region to control the movement of their cattle and not let them come near the railway tracks. If found in violation, strict action will be taken against the cattle owners following the due procedure and law. The Western Railway CPRO said in a statement, "Western Railway appeals to cattle owners/cattle grazers to not let their cattle come near the railway land/tracks. Stringent action will be taken under the law against the violators." It is to be noted that the Vande Bharat train on the Mumbai-Gandhinagar route was damaged on 29 October 2022 in a cattle run-over incident. The incident occurred near the Atul in Mumbai Central while the train was on its journey from Mumbai Central to Gandhinagar. Due to the accident, the train was detained for 15 minutes resulting in a delay in services. After the accident, the nose cone of the train broke. However, the train didn't have any mechanical damage. Western Railway appeals to cattle owners/cattle grazers to not let their cattle come near the railway land/tracks. Stringent action will be taken under the law against the violators: Western Railway CPRO Earlier, the nose of the Vande Bharat train was damaged after it collided with ca...

India's vast rail network is undergoing a $30 billion transformation with gleaming new trains and modern stations but Friday's deadly train accident shows more attention should be paid to safety, industry analysts said. At least 261 people were killed in the country's worst rail accident in over two decades after a passenger train went off the tracks and hit another in the eastern state of Odisha. State monopoly Indian Railways runs the fourth largest train network in the world. It transports 13 million people every day and moved nearly 1.5 billion tonnes of freight in 2022. Long-considered the lifeline of the world's most populous country, the 170-year-old system has seen rapid expansion and modernisation under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to boost infrastructure and connectivity in the fast-growing economy. This year, the government made a record 2.4-trillion-rupee ($30 billion) capital outlay for the railways, a 50% increase over the previous fiscal year, to upgrade tracks, ease congestion and add new trains. A new, semi-high-speed train built in India and called the "Vande Bharat Express", or "Salute to India Express", is showcased as evidence of this modernisation, with Modi himself flagging off the first journeys of many of the trains around the country. But Friday's crash has come as a jolt to this makeover, experts said. "The safety record has been improving over the years but there is more work to do," said Prakash Kumar Sen, head of the department of mecha...

By PTI BALASORE: As the Vande Bharat Express crossed t he site of the triple train crash at Bahanaga Bazar Monday morning successfully, the first train to cross the disaster site during day hours, passengers on board gasped as the horror of the devastation unleashed by the train pile up last Friday unfolded before their eyes. As the train which started from Howrah slowed down as a mark of caution running across freshly repaired tracks, a few muttered "Jagannath, Jagannath", the name of the presiding deity of Puri, the destination of the train, but most were too stunned to speak. The railway authorities had on Sunday informed passengers through a group SMS that the train would leave on time. The train left on time from Howrah station at 6.10 am but no one was sure of the route it would take as news on the state of the tracks which had broken up because of the accident which claimed 275 lives was unknown. Passengers were heard discussing the route it might take, especially as the display board in the compartment showed it was travelling at a speed of over 110 km per hour. The majority of the passengers were bound for Puri, the sea side pilgrim town and a favourite go-to-destination for tourists in eastern India. ALSO READ | However, after the train reached Kharagpur the announcements that the next station would be Baleswar made the passengers rush to the large windows of the train, ready with their mobile phones. The train speed was still between 110 km and 122 km. The train...

A Norwester accompanied by hailstorm damaged the windscreen of the main engine, as well as, the glass window of some compartments of the newly-launched Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat Express on Sunday afternoon 30 km away from Bhadrak railway station of Odisha, railway officials said. The 22896 Vande Bharat Express was hit by lightning and a hailstorm that cracked the windscreen of the driver’s cabin, said officials. The 22896 Vande Bharat Express was hit by lightning and a hailstorm that cracked the windscreen of the driver’s cabin, said officials. Officials said that the overhead electric wire was also damaged by an uprooted tree resulting in the train being stranded at the Baitarani Road railway overbridge for over two hours. Also Read: “All the 250 passengers on the train are safe. A diesel engine will clear the train very soon from the site to Manjuri Road as the pantograph is entangled with the overhead wire. After the train is cleared up to Manjuri Road, it will again work with its normal engine up to its destination. The train is expected to travel to Howrah after 7.30 pm,” said an official of the East Coast Railways. Several passengers on the train took to social media to complain about the lack of electricity in the coaches after being stranded. The 16th Vande Bharat Express, Odisha’s first semi-high-speed train connecting the holy city of Puri to West Bengal’s Howrah, was virtually flagged-off on Thursday by prime minister Narendra Modi who called it a symbol of India...

Vande Bharat Express between Puri and Howrah hit by hailstorm The Vande Bharat train was hit by a ‘Norwester’ accompanied by a hailstorm, which led to the damage of the windscreen of the main engine and the glass windows of some compartments. May 21, 2023 10:15 pm | Updated 11:08 pm IST - BHUBANESWAR Two days after the Vande Bharat Express was launched between Puri and Howrah Railway Stations, the semi-high speed train was hit by a ‘Norwester’ accompanied by a hailstorm, which led to the damage of the windscreen of the main engine and the glass windows of some compartments. The 22896 Vande Bharat Express was going towards Howrah from Puri when the incident occurred about 30 km from the Bhadrak Railway Station at 4.30 p.m. The train remained stationary at the Baitarani Road railway overbridge for over three hours. “Vande Bharat from Puri to Howrah was stranded between Baitarani Road and Manjuri Road since 4.30 PM on Sunday due to Overhead wire damaged by storm near Bhadrak. A big tree had fallen on track,” the East Coast Railway said in a statement. “A diesel relief engine was pressed into service as overhead wires got damaged. The diesel engine brought Vande Bharat train upto Manjari Road, The diesel engine was attached to Vande Bharat train at 8.05 pm,” the statement added. The train was ready to leave for Howrah by 8.15 p.m.

The The Vande Bharat train which was hit by cattle on Thursday got repaired in Mumbai Central. The front part of the engine got damaged after 3-4 buffaloes came on the railway line. But the accident did not stop the train which moved right after removing the carcasses within eight minutes and reached Gandhinagar on time. The Vande Bharat Express train suffered damage after it hit cattle on the track. The Vande Bharat train after being repaired on Thursday. Engineers pose in front of the train after repairing the front part of the Vande Bharat train. “The nose cover is designed to absorb the impact without transmitting the same to the functional parts of the train. Therefore, it is sacrificial by design and hence replaceable,” an official said. “Railway keeps a sufficient nose-cones as spare. It was replaced with a new one in the Mumbai Central depot in no time during the maintenance and the train is put back to service without any extra down time,” the official said adding that the train departed from Mumbai on Friday without any inconvenience to the passengers. The accident started to take a political turn with some Congress leaders questioning the durability of the India-made Vande Bharat Express. Even the official Twitter handle of the party too raised the same question. Congress's Nitin Agarwal posted the photo of the inauguration of the Vande Bharat Express by PM Modi and the viral photo after yesterday's accident. "Ghar se nikalte hi...kuch door chalte hi..," Agarwal...

NEW DELHI: Railways will start operating Vande Bharat trains on five more routes from June 26, the first launch after the three-train accident in Odisha on June 2 that claimed 288 lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch the semi-high-speed trains via video conferencing. The routes on which the five trains will run are - Mumbai-Goa, Bangalore-Hubli, Patna-Ranchi, Bhopal-Indore and Bhopal-Jabalpur. The railway ministry had cancelled the launch of the Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat train after the Odisha tragedy.

Koderma, Vikas Kumar: Patna-Ranchi on Monday June 12, 2023 Vande Bharat Express Train Trial run of Starting from Patna in the morning, the train reached Ranchi in the afternoon. While going from here to Patna, the incident of cattle coming on the railway track has come to the fore at four places before Koderma. A cow came on the railway track near Pipradih station. However, the train driver slowed down the speed of the train showing understanding, due to which a major accident was averted, however, there is information about cattle being cut from the train. Vande Bharat ran over at four places, train had to be stopped In order to go from Patna to Ranchi and from Ranchi to Patna, Vande Bharat Express train ran at four places. Cattle got hit by the train at all places. Because of this, the train had to be stopped at two places for five minutes each. According to railway officials, the run-hour occurred between Koderma to Hazaribagh, Kuragadha-Kathautia, between Mesra and Saki, near Hazaribagh home signal and near Pipradih home signal due to cattle coming on the track. Because of this, the train which reached Hazaribagh at 4:20 pm had to stop for five minutes and at Pipradih for five minutes from 5:24 am while returning.

Vande Bharat news: Railways will start operating Vande Bharat trains on five more routes from June 26, the first launch after the three-train accident in Odisha on June 2 that claimed 288 lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to launch the semi-high-speed trains via video conferencing. The routes on which the five trains will run are - Mumbai-Goa, Bangalore-Hubli, Patna-Ranchi, Bhopal-Indore and Bhopal-Jabalpur. The railway ministry had cancelled the launch of the Mumbai-Goa Vande Bharat train after the Odisha tragedy.