New Delhi:
The team, probing into the mysterious train crash near Chennai, has said the Railways staff was at fault as EMU engine was left "unattended" against the "established procedures".
"Railways' well established procedures were not followed. Driver should not have left the EMU cabin after energising the train," said RPF DG Ranjeet Sinha, who was part of the fact finding team.
Either driver or guard should have been present in the cabin as per the procedure, Sinha added.
Railway Member (Mechanical) Praveen Kumar, along with Sinha and three other senior railway officials, had visited the site after the accident.
"Had our staff at the station been alert, they could have switched off the electric supply and the EMU train would have been grounded," Kumar said.
When asked about the action against erring staff he said, "The Commissioner Safety Railway is conducting the inquiry and appropriate action will be taken after the submission of its report."
In the accident, "unauthorized" persons ran a suburban Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train from Chennai Central railway station at a high speed, and rammed it into a goods train at Vyasarpadi Jeeva station on April 29.
Various angles, including terror, were being examined by the Tamil Nadu police probing the mysterious train crash that left four people killed and eleven others, including two drivers of the goods train, injured.