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Members of the National Disaster Response Force on the site. Indian Railways published the reservation charts for both the passenger trains on its website. [‡ 1] [‡ 2] The railways and the governments of Odisha, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu issued helpline numbers.
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 ...
Accidents of Indian Railways [2] Span Accidents Train kms (million) Accidents per million kms Collisions Derailments Level crossing Fire Others Total 1961–1970 834 10,664 1,394 1,037 0 13,929 4,339 3.21 1971–1980 588 6,763 1,120 185 0 8,665 4,810 1.80 1981–1990 475 6,242 677 176 0 7,570 5,598 1.35 1991–2000 340 3,583 632 77 0 4,642 ...
[8] [9] Indian Railways will soon start the upgradation of tracks with high strength rails (R-350).The railways has started the work to increase the design speed limit of the next-generation Vande Bharat sleeper trains to 220 kmph and work has also started to improve the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah lines to allow trains to run at 160 km/h. [10]
Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a deparmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. [ a ] As of 2024 [update] , it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 135,207 km (84,014 mi), running track ...
On February 15, 2025, a crowd crush killed at least 18 people [a] and injured 15 others at the New Delhi railway station in New Delhi, India.The crush occurred after some passengers began to slip on a footbridge between platforms 14 and 15, causing a crushing pile of people to form in the already overcrowded station.
On 31 March 2017, Indian Railways announced a target of electrifying the entire rail network would be electrified by 2023. [70] In March 2020, Indian Railways announced a nationwide shutdown of passenger service to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in India with the freight operations continuing to transport essential goods.
These states come under Northeast Frontier Railway Zone of Indian Railways. This Railway project is considered as strategically important for India because it connects all the border states in this region and also close to ASEAN countries. The Government of India has planned and projected to connect all capitals of North Eastern states by 2023. [1]