July 23, 2014
Rail Board Chairman Arunendra Kumar on Wednesday said that the line powers figured out how to dodge a significant disaster, as they had former data of Maoist shutdown in Amamasilva town of Bihar's Aurangabad area where the revolutionaries exploded Delhi- Howrah route track.
"We had received inputs that there will be Maoist bandh today in the village. Therefore we had taken precautionary measures of restricting the speed of train in Bihar. We made the patrol train to run before Rajdhani," said Kumar.
"The engine of patrol train between Mughal Sarai and Gaya section derailed because of the blast thereby vanishing four meters of the railway track. Simultaneously, up and down lines were affected. The Bhubaneswar train was behind this patrol train and it was stopped. The rail transport normalized at 6 a.m. today, and slowly the trains will start moving," Kumar included.
He additionally said that the powers were careful remembering the Rajdhani mischance that had happened at some point back.
"Some time back we came to know that Rajdhani was derailed due to the same reason, so we were aware about this and were cautious. This problem arises mostly in Bihar, therefore, we have already imposed alerts and restriction in the state. There were no casualties. We could save a major mishap because of the timely actions by officials. Since we are aware of this kind of inputs, so speed of trains in that area were also restricted and the track and CRPF personnel were augmented to keep a watch," said Kumar.
The occurrence happened in the midst of tight security that was ventures up by the Indian lines yesterday in Gaya after the Maoists has called for a shutdown.
(Inputs and photo from ANI)
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"We had received inputs that there will be Maoist bandh today in the village. Therefore we had taken precautionary measures of restricting the speed of train in Bihar. We made the patrol train to run before Rajdhani," said Kumar.
"The engine of patrol train between Mughal Sarai and Gaya section derailed because of the blast thereby vanishing four meters of the railway track. Simultaneously, up and down lines were affected. The Bhubaneswar train was behind this patrol train and it was stopped. The rail transport normalized at 6 a.m. today, and slowly the trains will start moving," Kumar included.
He additionally said that the powers were careful remembering the Rajdhani mischance that had happened at some point back.
"Some time back we came to know that Rajdhani was derailed due to the same reason, so we were aware about this and were cautious. This problem arises mostly in Bihar, therefore, we have already imposed alerts and restriction in the state. There were no casualties. We could save a major mishap because of the timely actions by officials. Since we are aware of this kind of inputs, so speed of trains in that area were also restricted and the track and CRPF personnel were augmented to keep a watch," said Kumar.
The occurrence happened in the midst of tight security that was ventures up by the Indian lines yesterday in Gaya after the Maoists has called for a shutdown.
(Inputs and photo from ANI)
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