Vande bharat express train accident

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...

AIIMS Delhi Hiring For 198 Junior Resident Roles: Details At aiimsexams.ac.in Nehru Memorial Museum’ Renamed To ‘PM’s Museum & Library Society’ Three Sisters From Jammu And Kashmir Clear NEET In A First For Their Family Prerna Singh: Girl Whose Father Died, Slept Hungry, Survived On Single Roti-Chutney Meal But Cleared NEET NEET PARTICIPATING COLLEGES 2023: LIST OF MEDICAL COLLEGES ACCEPTING NEET SCORES 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 ...

But on Friday night, a devastating three-train pileup in eastern India — one of the worst transportation disasters in the country’s history — killed 275 people and injured about 1,000, forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel the ceremony. He visited the crash site and wounded patients at a nearby hospital instead. The collision in India’s Odisha state, which threw passenger cars from the tracks, drew fresh scrutiny of the safety and viability of the 19th-century rail network, first built by the British. The system, which snakes across the country for more than 67,000 miles, now handles roughly 22 million passengers each day, according to government figures. The tragedy unfolded Friday evening when the Coromandel Express, which was ferrying passengers from Howrah to Chennai on India’s eastern coast, took the wrong track and collided with a freight train near the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore, a district in Odisha. Soon after that, the Superfast Express running from Bangalore to Howrah crashed into the other two trains. Akhileshwar Sahay, a retired railways official who now works as a transportation consultant, said he hopes the accident will be an “eye-opener” to the Railways Ministry. “This accident gives us many messages. The first message is to change the … machinery, change the manpower, change the management ethos,” he said. “To be fair, I do think we could spend more on safety,” said G. Raghuram, a railway operations expert and former director of the India...

AIIMS Delhi Hiring For 198 Junior Resident Roles: Details At aiimsexams.ac.in Nehru Memorial Museum’ Renamed To ‘PM’s Museum & Library Society’ Three Sisters From Jammu And Kashmir Clear NEET In A First For Their Family Prerna Singh: Girl Whose Father Died, Slept Hungry, Survived On Single Roti-Chutney Meal But Cleared NEET NEET PARTICIPATING COLLEGES 2023: LIST OF MEDICAL COLLEGES ACCEPTING NEET SCORES 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 ...

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...

But on Friday night, a devastating three-train pileup in eastern India — one of the worst transportation disasters in the country’s history — killed 275 people and injured about 1,000, forcing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to cancel the ceremony. He visited the crash site and wounded patients at a nearby hospital instead. The collision in India’s Odisha state, which threw passenger cars from the tracks, drew fresh scrutiny of the safety and viability of the 19th-century rail network, first built by the British. The system, which snakes across the country for more than 67,000 miles, now handles roughly 22 million passengers each day, according to government figures. The tragedy unfolded Friday evening when the Coromandel Express, which was ferrying passengers from Howrah to Chennai on India’s eastern coast, took the wrong track and collided with a freight train near the Bahanaga Bazar station in Balasore, a district in Odisha. Soon after that, the Superfast Express running from Bangalore to Howrah crashed into the other two trains. Akhileshwar Sahay, a retired railways official who now works as a transportation consultant, said he hopes the accident will be an “eye-opener” to the Railways Ministry. “This accident gives us many messages. The first message is to change the … machinery, change the manpower, change the management ethos,” he said. “To be fair, I do think we could spend more on safety,” said G. Raghuram, a railway operations expert and former director of the India...