Motorman

Central Railway's Railway Protection Force (RPF) has successfully apprehended two individuals who trespassed into the Motorman's cabin of a stationary local train at Kasara station.

The 41-second clip shows a group of people gathered near the motorman cabin of a local train, while some others are seen standing in a queue and pushing the heavy train coach to one side to rescue the trapped passenger.

In the now-viral video, the passengers can be seen dancing to the beats of a dhol while giving farewell to the motorman.

The three coaches from the motorman's end derailed at around 8.45 am when the train was about to reach Kharkopar station, located about 30 km from Mumbai, on Belapur-Kharpokar line in Navi Mumbai.

A motorman of a suburban train foiled a woman's suicide bid near Vashi station in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday, an official from the Central Railway said.

Timely action by an alert motorman of the Central Railway saved the life of a man lying unconscious on the railway track near Ambernath station in Maharashtra on Tuesday, police said.

The video of a local motorman in Maharashtra, stopping it to urinate on the tracks has gone viral on social media, prompting demands to install toilets in cabins of motormen and guards.

A train accident was avoided today after the driver of a Mumbai suburban train spotted iron rods on the track and managed to stop it in time.

Two wheels of the motorman's coach of a local train derailed this afternoon at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) here, disrupting the service on two platforms of the station, a railway official said.

Time and Tide - and the Mumbai suburban trains -- wait for none, but today was an exception. An alert motorman of a local train in Mumbai did stop a train to save a dog which was about to get run over.

An alert local motorman saved a 15-year-old girl here who tried committing suicide by jumping before a train at suburban Malad by timely applying brakes, police said today.

"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.

The installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) in all local trains is still a long way off. A month ago, Western Railway installed CCTV cameras in the ladies coach of a train on trial basis. The cameras were fitted inside one of the ladies' compartments and inside the guard and motorman's cabins. The authorities are unhappy with the i...

A teenaged girl, who tried to kill herself on Monday by jumping in front of an approaching Metro train at Jatin Das Park station in the city, was saved by an alert motorman, officials said.

If you thought that only motorists jump signals, it's time you widen your perspective. Yesterday, a Western Railway (WR) motorman of the 8.13 am Borivli-bound Churghgate local jumped a red signal at Bandra's platform number 1. Its after-effects: cancellation of several services accompanied by a delay of 20 minutes on both up and down line.

Central Railway's Railway Protection Force (RPF) has successfully apprehended two individuals who trespassed into the Motorman's cabin of a stationary local train at Kasara station.

The 41-second clip shows a group of people gathered near the motorman cabin of a local train, while some others are seen standing in a queue and pushing the heavy train coach to one side to rescue the trapped passenger.

In the now-viral video, the passengers can be seen dancing to the beats of a dhol while giving farewell to the motorman.

The three coaches from the motorman's end derailed at around 8.45 am when the train was about to reach Kharkopar station, located about 30 km from Mumbai, on Belapur-Kharpokar line in Navi Mumbai.

A motorman of a suburban train foiled a woman's suicide bid near Vashi station in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday, an official from the Central Railway said.

Timely action by an alert motorman of the Central Railway saved the life of a man lying unconscious on the railway track near Ambernath station in Maharashtra on Tuesday, police said.

The video of a local motorman in Maharashtra, stopping it to urinate on the tracks has gone viral on social media, prompting demands to install toilets in cabins of motormen and guards.

A train accident was avoided today after the driver of a Mumbai suburban train spotted iron rods on the track and managed to stop it in time.

Two wheels of the motorman's coach of a local train derailed this afternoon at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) here, disrupting the service on two platforms of the station, a railway official said.

Time and Tide - and the Mumbai suburban trains -- wait for none, but today was an exception. An alert motorman of a local train in Mumbai did stop a train to save a dog which was about to get run over.

An alert local motorman saved a 15-year-old girl here who tried committing suicide by jumping before a train at suburban Malad by timely applying brakes, police said today.

"Meri aankhon ke saamne maut dekha," a shaken L Tiwari told Western Railway officials yesterday, describing the moments when he realised that the train he was piloting was running out of track, hurtling, at high speed, towards platform no 3 of Churchgate station.

The installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) in all local trains is still a long way off. A month ago, Western Railway installed CCTV cameras in the ladies coach of a train on trial basis. The cameras were fitted inside one of the ladies' compartments and inside the guard and motorman's cabins. The authorities are unhappy with the i...

A teenaged girl, who tried to kill herself on Monday by jumping in front of an approaching Metro train at Jatin Das Park station in the city, was saved by an alert motorman, officials said.

If you thought that only motorists jump signals, it's time you widen your perspective. Yesterday, a Western Railway (WR) motorman of the 8.13 am Borivli-bound Churghgate local jumped a red signal at Bandra's platform number 1. Its after-effects: cancellation of several services accompanied by a delay of 20 minutes on both up and down line.