Rail Drivers

The driver of the Naini Jan Shatabdi Express averted a possible accident when he slammed the emergency brakes on finding an iron pole across the tracks in near Uttarakhand's Rudrapur, officials said on Thursday, alleging that it could be sabotage.

Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.

A rail mishap was averted on Monday in Madhya Pradesh after a tractor stalled on the tracks and a train driver stopped in time by applying brakes, a police official said.

A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed 79 people 11 years ago.

A brand new Mercedes rammed a roadside railing in Surat after the driver lost control of the speeding vehicle on Monday night, a CCTV video shows.

A probe into the incident of the driver-less running of a freight train for about 70 km from Kathua (Jammu) to Ucchi Bassi Station (Punjab) in Jammu Tawi-Pathankot section has blamed that both the driver as well as the station master

An allegedly inebriated truck driver left his vehicle onto a railway track here, minutes before a train was to cross the stretch, officials said.

Andhra Pradesh Train Accident: The train collision in Andhra Pradesh was caused after one of the drivers overshot a signal, a senior railway official said.

Some people placed boulders on rail tracks near Pune city on Friday, but they were spotted on time and the driver of a Mumbai-bound express train coming on the line was alerted, thus averting a tragedy, officials said.

The train movement on the Shimla-Kalka Heritage Rail track was disrupted in Himachal Pradesh following a landslide on Thursday.

A viral video showing a car jumping over a divider and colliding with a railing in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district has caught the attention of internet users.

A senior citizen crossing rail tracks at Kalyan station near Mumbai on Sunday was saved when the drivers of a Mumbai-Varanasi train applied emergency brakes in the nick of time after being alerted by a rail official, the Central Railway said.

The driver of a speeding Japanese bullet train handed over the controls to an unqualified conductor so he could answer an urgent call... of nature, a rail operator has revealed.

Delhi Metro Magenta Line: India has now entered into the league of seven percent of the world's metro networks that can operate without drivers, with the commencement of the fully automated driverless trains operations

Amid distressing stories coming from all over about plight of migrants stranded due coronavirus lockdown, 15 migrants were killed this morning after a cargo train ran over them in Maharashtra's Aurangabad. They were sleeping on rail tracks when the accident happened, officials said, adding that driver tried to stop the train.

The driver of the Naini Jan Shatabdi Express averted a possible accident when he slammed the emergency brakes on finding an iron pole across the tracks in near Uttarakhand's Rudrapur, officials said on Thursday, alleging that it could be sabotage.

Shinkansen bullet trains could be whizzing around Japan without drivers from the mid-2030s, one of its main rail operators said, motivated in part by the country's demographic crisis.

A rail mishap was averted on Monday in Madhya Pradesh after a tractor stalled on the tracks and a train driver stopped in time by applying brakes, a police official said.

A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at national rail infrastructure operator ADIF were sentenced on Friday to two-and-a-half years in prison over a train disaster that killed 79 people 11 years ago.

A brand new Mercedes rammed a roadside railing in Surat after the driver lost control of the speeding vehicle on Monday night, a CCTV video shows.

A probe into the incident of the driver-less running of a freight train for about 70 km from Kathua (Jammu) to Ucchi Bassi Station (Punjab) in Jammu Tawi-Pathankot section has blamed that both the driver as well as the station master

An allegedly inebriated truck driver left his vehicle onto a railway track here, minutes before a train was to cross the stretch, officials said.

Andhra Pradesh Train Accident: The train collision in Andhra Pradesh was caused after one of the drivers overshot a signal, a senior railway official said.

Some people placed boulders on rail tracks near Pune city on Friday, but they were spotted on time and the driver of a Mumbai-bound express train coming on the line was alerted, thus averting a tragedy, officials said.

The train movement on the Shimla-Kalka Heritage Rail track was disrupted in Himachal Pradesh following a landslide on Thursday.

A viral video showing a car jumping over a divider and colliding with a railing in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district has caught the attention of internet users.

A senior citizen crossing rail tracks at Kalyan station near Mumbai on Sunday was saved when the drivers of a Mumbai-Varanasi train applied emergency brakes in the nick of time after being alerted by a rail official, the Central Railway said.

The driver of a speeding Japanese bullet train handed over the controls to an unqualified conductor so he could answer an urgent call... of nature, a rail operator has revealed.

Delhi Metro Magenta Line: India has now entered into the league of seven percent of the world's metro networks that can operate without drivers, with the commencement of the fully automated driverless trains operations

Amid distressing stories coming from all over about plight of migrants stranded due coronavirus lockdown, 15 migrants were killed this morning after a cargo train ran over them in Maharashtra's Aurangabad. They were sleeping on rail tracks when the accident happened, officials said, adding that driver tried to stop the train.