Rail Mishap

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.

At least 270 people have died in the horrific train mishap that occurred in Odisha's Balasore on Friday.

Scattered sheets of paper, with poems in Bengali professing love, were strewn on the tracks beside a mangled coach of the Coromandel Express as rescuers rummaged through belongings of the victims at the rail mishap site in Odisha's Balasore district.

A passenger trying to board a moving train at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai narrowly escaped a mishap, thanks to a Railway guard and a Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel.

Timely action by the police and a local helped avert a major rail mishap in the national capital on Saturday.

Seventeen persons were killed Thursday in separate mishaps on the suburban network of Western and Central Railways, the railway police said.

A train accident was averted today as a fracture in the track was detected between Farrukhabad and Fatehgarh, minutes before the Kalindi Express was scheduled to pass, officials said.

Tragic events involving train accidents, coaches falling into rivers or catching fire will be reenacted at the country's first 'Railways disaster management village' which is expected to come up on the outskirts of Bengaluru by December next year.

Government today expressed serious concern over "unusual" activities reported in the past few days, saying that attempts were made to sabotage rail tracks and carry out explosions.

Two officers from the Rayagada district of Odisha have become local heroes after the Hirakhand Express rail accident on Saturday in which more than 40 people lost their lives.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the rail mishap in Harda district appeared to have been caused by heavy rains which led to the base of the track getting washed away, resulting in snapping of the overhead contact of the engine.

Four persons, including two women, were killed in two separate rail mishaps at nearby Aluva today, police said.

The issue of fire safety has come into sharp focus because of the rising number of mishaps in trains across the country.

The driver of a Spanish train that flew off the rails and killed 79 people admitted speeding but complained bitterly about a dangerous curve as he lay trapped in his cabin, a new recording reveals.

Sixty-two people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.

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.

At least 270 people have died in the horrific train mishap that occurred in Odisha's Balasore on Friday.

Scattered sheets of paper, with poems in Bengali professing love, were strewn on the tracks beside a mangled coach of the Coromandel Express as rescuers rummaged through belongings of the victims at the rail mishap site in Odisha's Balasore district.

A passenger trying to board a moving train at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus in Mumbai narrowly escaped a mishap, thanks to a Railway guard and a Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel.

Timely action by the police and a local helped avert a major rail mishap in the national capital on Saturday.

Seventeen persons were killed Thursday in separate mishaps on the suburban network of Western and Central Railways, the railway police said.

A train accident was averted today as a fracture in the track was detected between Farrukhabad and Fatehgarh, minutes before the Kalindi Express was scheduled to pass, officials said.

Tragic events involving train accidents, coaches falling into rivers or catching fire will be reenacted at the country's first 'Railways disaster management village' which is expected to come up on the outskirts of Bengaluru by December next year.

Government today expressed serious concern over "unusual" activities reported in the past few days, saying that attempts were made to sabotage rail tracks and carry out explosions.

Two officers from the Rayagada district of Odisha have become local heroes after the Hirakhand Express rail accident on Saturday in which more than 40 people lost their lives.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the rail mishap in Harda district appeared to have been caused by heavy rains which led to the base of the track getting washed away, resulting in snapping of the overhead contact of the engine.

Four persons, including two women, were killed in two separate rail mishaps at nearby Aluva today, police said.

The issue of fire safety has come into sharp focus because of the rising number of mishaps in trains across the country.

The driver of a Spanish train that flew off the rails and killed 79 people admitted speeding but complained bitterly about a dangerous curve as he lay trapped in his cabin, a new recording reveals.

Sixty-two people were injured when multiple cars derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city, throwing passengers onto the floor, police said Friday.