Train Derailed

A goods train carrying coal derailed near Boko in Assam's Kamrup district on Wednesday.

A toy train heading from Maharashtra's popular Matheran hill station to Neral has derailed, but no passenger suffered any injury, railway officials said on Tuesday.

Three days after the horrific three-train crash that killed 275 people in Odisha's Balasore, another train, a goods train, has gone off the rails in the Bargarh area, around 500 km away from the recent horrific crash site.

East Coast Railway has decided to run three Special trains between Puri and Howrah to facilitate the passengers as after the recent derailment, train services have been affected in Bhadrak-Kharagpur Railway Section on Howrah-Chennai Main Line.

India's top auditing body, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, in a 2022 report on derailments in Indian Railways sought to find out whether measures to prevent derailments and collisions were clearly laid down and implemented.

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.

The incident took place when a passenger train, the Coromandel Shalimar Express, derailed after hitting a goods train and another train, the Yesvantpur-Howrah Superfast, crashed into the derailed coaches.

Wielding gas torches and electric cutters, rescuers worked through the night to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 233 people.

At least 261 people were killed and over 900 were injured as four coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday evening.

Prime MInister Narendra Modi today visited the accident site and the survivors of the train tragedy in Odisha that claimed the lives of 288 people. 800 people were injured when a passenger train hit the derailed coaches of another train Friday.

The train crash in Odisha on Friday in which at least 233 people were killed and more than 900 injured, is one of the deadliest such accidents since independence, data shows.

Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said that he has ordered a high-level probe into the Coromandel Express Derailment in Odisha's Balasore late on Friday night.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) DIG Manoj Kumar Yadav on Friday said search operations were underway inside the derailed passenger train coaches in Odisha's Balasore and the primary focus was on mobilising emergency rescue and relief.

The Yashwantpur-Howrah Superfast hit the derailed bogies of a few coaches of Coromandel Express which had crashed and fell on the opposite track, Railway Ministry spokesperson Amitabh Sharma said.

Coromandel Express, which was going from Kolkata to Chennai, rammed into the derailed coaches of the other train, which was going from Bengaluru to Kolkata,

A goods train carrying coal derailed near Boko in Assam's Kamrup district on Wednesday.

A toy train heading from Maharashtra's popular Matheran hill station to Neral has derailed, but no passenger suffered any injury, railway officials said on Tuesday.

Three days after the horrific three-train crash that killed 275 people in Odisha's Balasore, another train, a goods train, has gone off the rails in the Bargarh area, around 500 km away from the recent horrific crash site.

East Coast Railway has decided to run three Special trains between Puri and Howrah to facilitate the passengers as after the recent derailment, train services have been affected in Bhadrak-Kharagpur Railway Section on Howrah-Chennai Main Line.

India's top auditing body, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, in a 2022 report on derailments in Indian Railways sought to find out whether measures to prevent derailments and collisions were clearly laid down and implemented.

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.

The incident took place when a passenger train, the Coromandel Shalimar Express, derailed after hitting a goods train and another train, the Yesvantpur-Howrah Superfast, crashed into the derailed coaches.

Wielding gas torches and electric cutters, rescuers worked through the night to pull out survivors and the dead from the mangled steel of three trains that derailed one top of another in a horrific sequence, killing at least 233 people.

At least 261 people were killed and over 900 were injured as four coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed in Odisha's Balasore district on Friday evening.

Prime MInister Narendra Modi today visited the accident site and the survivors of the train tragedy in Odisha that claimed the lives of 288 people. 800 people were injured when a passenger train hit the derailed coaches of another train Friday.

The train crash in Odisha on Friday in which at least 233 people were killed and more than 900 injured, is one of the deadliest such accidents since independence, data shows.

Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday said that he has ordered a high-level probe into the Coromandel Express Derailment in Odisha's Balasore late on Friday night.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) DIG Manoj Kumar Yadav on Friday said search operations were underway inside the derailed passenger train coaches in Odisha's Balasore and the primary focus was on mobilising emergency rescue and relief.

The Yashwantpur-Howrah Superfast hit the derailed bogies of a few coaches of Coromandel Express which had crashed and fell on the opposite track, Railway Ministry spokesperson Amitabh Sharma said.

Coromandel Express, which was going from Kolkata to Chennai, rammed into the derailed coaches of the other train, which was going from Bengaluru to Kolkata,