Railway Officials

A team of officials from the South Western Railway successfully recovered and returned a bag containing gold ornaments valued at approximately Rs 5.4 lakh, which was left behind on a Yesvantpur bound train, to a passenger.

A man was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly placing detonators on the Haridwar-Dehradun railway track in Uttarakhand, officials said.

Mizoram's Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link within the next nine months as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang, top officials said on Sunday.

The joint inspection note of a passenger-freight train collision near Chennai last week, prepared by seven senior railway officials, suggests the train might have derailed at the intersection point.

Two coaches of an empty local train derailed while entering a car shed from Mumbai Central, affecting operations on the Western Railway on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

The railway derailment in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur - after a passenger train travelling at 75 km per hour rammed into a stationary goods train - was caused by a "mismatch between signal and route", RN Singh, General Manager of Southern Railways, said.

Police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly trying to derail a train by placing iron rods on the railway track in Jakhoura police station area of Lalitpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night, a police official said.

The engine of a train hit a stone placed on the railway track in the Bairia area here on Saturday, officials said, adding that no damage was caused.

A railway staffer has been taken into custody for stealing 10 "harmless" detonators that went off on a track during the passing of a military special train in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Monday.

Four wagons of a mechanical rake derailed near Narayanpur Anant yard in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday, disrupting railway services on the route, officials said.

A railway official here lost Rs 9 lakh to cyber fraudsters posing as CBI officers, who told him that he was involved in a money laundering case and then produced him before a "judge" via video call, police said.

The driver of a car that got stuck in the flooded Old Faridabad Railway underpass leading to the death of its two occupants had disregarded the barricades put up to prevent people from going to the inundated area, a police official has claimed.

The severed bodies of a man and his 5-year-old son were recovered from railway tracks, while his wife was found hanging in their home in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district on Thursday, an official said.

Unidentified miscreants attempted to derail a goods train in Rajasthan's Ajmer district by putting cement blocks on tracks, railway officials said on Tuesday.

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 team of officials from the South Western Railway successfully recovered and returned a bag containing gold ornaments valued at approximately Rs 5.4 lakh, which was left behind on a Yesvantpur bound train, to a passenger.

A man was arrested here on Tuesday for allegedly placing detonators on the Haridwar-Dehradun railway track in Uttarakhand, officials said.

Mizoram's Aizawl will be the fourth capital city in the Northeast to come under railway link within the next nine months as the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is laying the new 51.38 km Broad Gauge track up to Sairang, top officials said on Sunday.

The joint inspection note of a passenger-freight train collision near Chennai last week, prepared by seven senior railway officials, suggests the train might have derailed at the intersection point.

Two coaches of an empty local train derailed while entering a car shed from Mumbai Central, affecting operations on the Western Railway on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

The railway derailment in Tamil Nadu's Tiruvallur - after a passenger train travelling at 75 km per hour rammed into a stationary goods train - was caused by a "mismatch between signal and route", RN Singh, General Manager of Southern Railways, said.

Police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly trying to derail a train by placing iron rods on the railway track in Jakhoura police station area of Lalitpur district in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night, a police official said.

The engine of a train hit a stone placed on the railway track in the Bairia area here on Saturday, officials said, adding that no damage was caused.

A railway staffer has been taken into custody for stealing 10 "harmless" detonators that went off on a track during the passing of a military special train in Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Monday.

Four wagons of a mechanical rake derailed near Narayanpur Anant yard in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district on Wednesday, disrupting railway services on the route, officials said.

A railway official here lost Rs 9 lakh to cyber fraudsters posing as CBI officers, who told him that he was involved in a money laundering case and then produced him before a "judge" via video call, police said.

The driver of a car that got stuck in the flooded Old Faridabad Railway underpass leading to the death of its two occupants had disregarded the barricades put up to prevent people from going to the inundated area, a police official has claimed.

The severed bodies of a man and his 5-year-old son were recovered from railway tracks, while his wife was found hanging in their home in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district on Thursday, an official said.

Unidentified miscreants attempted to derail a goods train in Rajasthan's Ajmer district by putting cement blocks on tracks, railway officials said on Tuesday.

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.