Train Derail

A suburban train derailed on Friday at Kalyan station in Thane district, some 60 kilometres from Mumbai, while entering a platform. There was no report of anyone getting injured, an official said.

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.

The engine, power car and six coaches of an express train going from Agartala in Tripura to Mumbai derailed today at Dibolong station in Assam at around 3:55 pm. There have been no reports of any casualties or major injuries so far.

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.

A passenger train, travelling at 75 kmph, hit a stationary goods train on Friday, in Tamil Nadu, at around 8:30 pm.

Tamil Nadu Train Collision updates: 12 coaches of the express train derailed and 19 passengers reportedly suffered injuries.

An express train has collided with a goods rake in Tamil Nadu's Triuvallur district and two coaches of the passenger train have caught fire.

A goods train collided with cement slabs kept on the tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli on Wednesday, making it the most recent incident in a spate of suspected attempts to derail trains.

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.

Three wagons of a goods train carrying petroleum products derailed near a railway yard on the Delhi-Mumbai route in Madhya Pradesh's Ratlam on Thursday night.

Two persons were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly placing an iron rail piece on a railway track in an attempt to derail a train for robbing passengers in Gujarat's Botad district, police said.

The incident took place near the Sagphata railway station when the army's special train was travelling from Jammu and Kashmir to Karnataka.

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.

Three wagons of a goods train derailed between Misrod and Mandideep stations near Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal on Monday, an official said.