A freight train derailed on Monday morning, inside a yard adjoining the Cuttack railway station in Odisha, an official said. Luckily, the accident did not claim any lives.
Railway officials cited that the derailment happened at about 8.30 a.m. when the wagons slipped off the track and hit the loop lines within the yard boundary. The reason behind the derailment remains to be investigated. The railway authorities swung into action to recover the situation by organising a relief train comprising machinery, materials and personnel to reinstitute the situation after the mishap occurred. According to officials, the loop line in question would be back up in a short time.
Notably, this derailment had no effect on the traffic of trains on the main line. The vital line to Bhadrak-Cuttack-Visakhapatnam is clear and in full operation, as well as into Paradeep. Communities in the area have been spared from whether they will get their regular passenger train services, with regular passenger trains running normally ever since.
The accident happened at the back of several recent derailments that have been reported in various parts of India in the past few months. In the first week of June, a train coach of Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) derailed, close to Shivaji Bridge, New Delhi. The train that was heading to Nizamuddin Railway Station and was travelling North to Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, the derailment occurred close to 4:10 p.m. on the down main line. Luckily, there were no reported injuries in the latter case as well.
But this has not happened to be a derailment without casualties. A serious accident happened in the month of March this year in the Cuttack district of Odisha, where eleven coaches of the Bangalore- Kamakhya AC Superfast Express train derailed, and one person died and seven persons were injured. Similarly, about the same period, two coaches of the Kalka-Delhi express derailed at Kalka station during its reverse move to the washing yard, causing delays to other services, such as the Kalka-Delhi Shatabdi Express.
Railway authorities are still insisting on the increase of safety measures and infrastructure inspection.
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