The traffic on Kalyan-Kasara section of the Central Railway in Thane district of Maharashtra, was affected due to the collision between an Express and a local train on Thursday night, will be fully restored by early Saturday morning, a top official said.
Lakhs of commuters traveling on the Central Railway line in Mumbai are likely to get some relief on Thursday, with authorities trying to restore disrupted services.
The India Meteorological Department on Tuesday had predicted heavy rainfall for the next two days due to what it called cyclonic circulation around the maximum city.
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In the aftermath of the violence at Azad Maidan, Mumbai, and some stray incidents in Hyderabad, many people from north-eastern states in Karnataka are trying to leave Bangalore and go back home. Over 5,000 people from north-east, most of them students from Guwahati, were seen assembling at the city's central railway station as they tried to head back home.
An eco-friendly green toilet is a reality in an express train under the East Central Railway zone in Bihar, railway officials on Wednesday said.
Twenty-six coal-laden wagons of a goods train derailed at a place between Bhabua-Durgawati railway stations in Bihar's Kaimur district, officials said on Friday.
The train, which had started from the CST station, was approaching the Masjid station, when the sixth bogie (from the engine) derailed, railway sources said.
Maharashtra CM said a high-level committee will probe the circumstances under which the 40-year-old overbridge collapsed.
The country's first bullet train will run at a maximum speed of 350 km per hour, covering the stretch in under three hours from the usual seven.
The Jaldoot train supplying water from Miraj town to Latur in Marathwada on Monday made its 111th and last trip.
A 'water train' with 10 wagons carrying water for parched Latur in Marathwada region, which is battling the worst drought ever, on Monday left from Miraj in western Maharashtra.
The online railway ticket booking portal of Indian Railways was unavailable for bookings following a failure of the main server of Central Railway Information Systems at Delhi.
In view of the rail-roko call given by Telangana Joint Action Committee in Telangana region, the South Central Railway on Thursday announced cancellation of as many as 124 passenger trains for three-day period.
In a bid to check organised gangs involved in drugging and looting railway passengers -- mostly migrant workers from Bihar and Jharkhand, the East Central Railway has identified 32 long route trains and 50 railway stations across five states to launch special drive against them.
Accidents on the railway tracks in Dombivali, a suburban Central Railway section, killed as many as 160 persons and left 173 injured in 2011, a railway police official said on Wednesday.
The development came after Gaikwad apparently booked a seat from Hyderabad to Delhi on Flight AI 551 for Wednesday, which was cancelled by the national carrier.
Four gangmen were killed on Friday when they were run over by a local train between suburban Kurla and Vidyavihar stations.
The Maoists on Sunday began their two-day Bharat bandh by blowing up railway tracks in two districts of Jharkhand, even as the death toll in the Naxal attack on the convoy of independent MP and former assembly speaker Inder Singh Namdhari rose to 11.
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At least 25 passengers were injured when six coaches of the Mumbai-Pratapgarh Udyog Nagri Express derailed near Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh on Monday morning.
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A day after a major train accident in Uttar Pradesh, railway officials in Bihar and Jharkhand are worried as nearly half of the railway crossings in the state remain unmanned in the five divisions of the East Central Railway, making them vulnerable to accidents. Railway officials of ECR believe that unmanned railway level crossings pose a serious threat to people. They have blamed the Bihar government of being apathetic to repeated requests.
Nearly 500 coaches of Mumbai local trains are on the tracks despite crossing their operational life of 25 years.
One person was killed in a landslide caused by heavy rains in Vijayawada city but no other casualties have been reported from elsewhere so far, according to sources in the State Disaster Management Authority.
With the cyclone set to make landfall on Wednesday, Maharashtra and Gujarat activated their disaster response mechanism, deploying NDRF teams and evacuating people from areas likely to be hit.
In a freak mishap, a portion of an under-construction bridge and a bulky water pipeline, passing over the Central railway tracks, collapsed on a moving train in Thane, killing two persons and injuring 11, officials said.
Five teenaged boys were Sunday mowed down by a train near Goldenganj station under Sonepur-Chapra section of the East-Central Railway in Bihar, a Government Railway Police officer said.
Heavy rains continued to lash several parts of Mumbai for the second consecutive day on Friday, disrupting rail and air traffic, causing inconvenience to a lot of commuters.
Services of the Central Railway were affected in Mumbai on Sunday when protestors staged a 'rail roko' at Vikhroli station in suburban Mumbai.Rail services came to a complete halt in the central line after angry commuters held protests over an accident.
According to highly-placed railway officials, it was the pantry car manager who first noticed the burning wire and immediately halted the train by pulling emergency chain.
A driver and seven passengers were injured, two of them seriously, when seven coaches of the Barauni Gwalior Mail jumped tracks and one of them was hit by Gangasagar Express near Samastipur in Bihar, a railway official said on Friday.
The Railways on Tuesday said the derailment of the Kalka Mail in Fatehpur two days ago, which claimed 68 lives, did not take place either due to emergency brakes being applied or because of a turning point. "From the inquiry so far, it is clear that the accident did not take place either due to emergency brakes or the turning point used to connect the tracks," said General Manager of North Central Railway Harish Chandra Joshi.
Indian Railways said it would rope in home-grown talent to develop world-class stations as foreign consultants were charging exorbitant fees.
After nine trips by a 10-wagon water train, a 50-wagon water train carrying 25 lakh litre water was later pressed into service.
Ten wagons of a goods train got derailed when Maoists blew up a railway track near Kurhani railway station in Hajipur-Muzaffarpur section of East-Central Railway in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district early Monday, DGP Neelmani said.
A division bench of justices A S Oka and A A Sayed granted bail to Atif Mulla on a surety of Rs 1.50 lakh.
The 'water train' with 10 wagons carrying water for Latur left from Miraj in western Maharashtra on Wednesday morning and took 10 hours to traverse a distance of around 350km.
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