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On 17 June 2024, Kanchanjunga Express (Train No. 13174), a passenger train was traveling from Agartala in Tripura to Sealdah in West Bengal.The train had left New Jalpaiguri Junction, crossed Rangapani railway station, a non-stopping station at 8:27 IST and stopped some distance before the Chatterhat railway station on the Katihar–Siliguri line, waiting for clearance to proceed further.
At 13:18 PKT (08:18 UTC), [8] ten coaches of the Hazara Express derailed near Sarhari railway station, between Shahdadpur and Nawabshah, en route from Karachi to Sargodha.The train was carrying around 1,000 passengers. [8]
At about 19:00 IST, the Coromandel Express was intended to pass straight on the up line but was wrongly switched to the parallel up loop line, where it collided with a stationary goods train laden with iron ore. [8] Because of the high speed of the passenger train and the weight of the goods train, 21 coaches of the Coromandel Express derailed.
14 May 1996 – A passenger train collided with a bus at an unmanned level-crossing near Alappuzha in Kerala, killing 35 people from a marriage party. [78] [84] 25 May 1996 – At least 25 people were killed after a passenger train bound for Allahabad collided with a tractor-trolley at an unmanned level-crossing near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh ...
APSDRF Team at the collision site. On 29 October 2023, around 7:00 pm (13:30 UTC), the collision occurred on the Howrah–Chennai main line [4] after Visakhapatnam-Palasa Express service train stopped due to a break in an overhead cable when it was hit by an oncoming passenger train travelling from Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, to Rayagada in Odisha, derailing its three carriages, in the ...
On New Year’s Eve train managers working for Avanti West Coast will begin a five-month series of strikes. The members of the RMT union will also stop work on 2 January and every Sunday from 12 ...
Some people pulled the emergency chain to stop the train at around 4:45 pm. Passengers jumped off the train to the adjoining tracks and were struck by the Bengaluru Express coming from the opposite direction. [5] [6] [7] Residents rushed to the site and offered help. Images of the disaster site show mutilated body parts along the railway track. [1]
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,000 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. The tsunami subsequently caused ...