'Suddenly I felt a jolt and got thrown off my berth. It took a while before I could understand what had happened,'
The Indian Railways needs the return of the influential and well-heeled customer for its revival, if not survival.
The devastating collision, involving two passenger trains and a freight train, took the lives of at least 275 people and caused injuries to over 1100 others in Balasore. This tragic incident has had a profound impact across India.
Rail Budget caters to all sections of the society and showcases a vision to reorganise and rejuvenate the national transporter
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday ordered a probe into the freak accident at Churchgate Station in Mumbai wherein a local train crashed into the dead end, injuring five passengers and disrupting suburban services on the Western Railway line.
Western Railway scored an exciting 4-3 victory over former champions Punjab Police to enter the semi-finals of the Bombay Gold cup hockey
The opposition has been critical of the Centre's handling of the situation, accusing it of not doing enough to ease the hardships of the migrant workers, many of whom have lost their jobs during the lockdown which started on March 25.
Auxiliary warning system, cab-signalling device, centralised traffic control system are some of the state-of-the-art measures that are being considered to enhance safety measures in India
The jawan said he used his mobile phone light to locate hurt and trapped passengers and took them to safety.
Only a small percentage of passengers who traveled on the trains involved in the June 2, 2023 accident in Odisha had availed of travel accident insurance while booking their tickets online on the IRCTC portal.
The collision caused a minor dent to the train's front panel.
LHB coaches are safer. Two high-level railway safety commissions came down heavily on ICF coaches, recommending their replacement by LHB, says Bibek Debroy.
Incessant rains apparently caused cracks in the bridge, resulting in its collapse, an official said.
To Indian Railways, safety is not necessarily a systemic issue but something it attends to only on a case-by-case basis. If accidents were not to happen, the thought of safety would not arise, says Mahesh Vijapurkar
Three trains jumped off the tracks and another derailment was averted on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh, New Delhi and Maharashtra within a span of nine hours.
The Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday ruled out retrenchment of employees in railways and nationalised banks.
Amid concerns over increasing number of train accidents, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has sought a detailed safety plan from the railways.
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Prabhu said the Ministry was preparing a plan till 2030.
A day after the gruesome train tragedy in Orissa, the Railways has scaled down the death toll from 16 to nine.
Three bills were introduced in Lok Sabha on Tuesday amid uproar with members from Left parties trooping into the Well to protest against rising prices of onion while other members raised the Telangana issue.
After using harmful gases for years as refrigerant in AC coaches, the Railways is now replacing it with ozone-friendly air-conditioning system in the trains.
Andhra train mishap: Railways, govt agencies blame each other
'The government must understand that the Indian Railways is like a Kamdhenu cow. It can look after your GDP, it can look after the health of the nation. But the Kamdhenu cow also needs nourishment.' 'You have not at all looked after the Indian Railways, you have ill treated the Indian Railways, you have mistreated the Indian Railways and you have given the Indian Railways step motherly treatment.' 'I don't think this government has understood the Indian Railways.'
Ranajit Giri, Biprada Bag, Asha Behera and Ashok Bera, all residents of Bahanaga Bazaar station area in Balasore district where the crash took place, were among the first to rescue the injured.
Probe into the train accident near Arakkonam on Tuesday night will commence in Chennai on with officials scheduled to question the driver of the Mainline Electrical Multiple Unit train which rammed into a stationary passenger train, killing 10 persons.
Railway sources said two people were seriously injured in the explosion that occurred at around 0630 hrs.
Vaishnaw said that the actual reason behind the accident could be ascertained only after dismantling the engine's equipment.
Odisha Police, however, ruled out involvement of Naxals in the Hirakhand mishap.
The work and management culture in the Railways needs to be severely shaken up, but the conventional political leadership of the country is unable to do it.
The minister along with the senior officials visited the accident site where the Doon Express derailed on Thursday killing five persons and met the injured at the district hospital, official sources said.
Among the new safety measures that the KRC is considering are an early-warning system for land-slides, inclinometres and anti-collision devices.
In an interview with Business Standard, Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi says if there is no rise in fares, the Indian Railways would come to a grinding halt.
An eight-year old boy was rescued from the accident site in West Midnapore on Friday.
Pakistan's triple train crash, in which 133 people were killed, has sparked off a major controversy among railway officials.
LHB (Linke Holfmann Bush) coaches made of stainless steel have more inbuilt safety features as they can absorb shock and impact of derailment more effectively and as a result do not topple, thus reducing the loss of lives in case of accident, said a senior Rail Ministry official.
The WWF had earlier asked for halting movement of night trains in the New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar section passing through wildlife sanctuaries and National Parks and restricting their speed.
The jottings on torn pages of a diary with sketches of elephants, fish and sun on the other side, were probably written during the leisure time of a passenger whose identity is not known as yet.
