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| Rlys have the answers, not the staf |
| Rlys have the answers, not the staff
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| INDIA
, 2-August-2011
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The railway accident this weekend in West Bengal’s Malda district, where a portion of the Guwahati-Bangalore Express derailed onto another track and led to a collision with another train, served a combined reminder of two problems, usually separate, plaguing the railways. Three weeks earlier, it was the Kalka Mail that had derailed in Malwan, Uttar Pradesh.
Each problem has been prescribed a solution — more personnel to maintain tracks and cocahes to prevent derailment, an automatic device to prevent collision — but neither has been fully implemented.
According to Railway Ministry data, last year’s 165 accidents, which killed 252 people, included 80 derailments and nine collisions. This year, 122 were killed between April and July, 65 of them in the Kalka Mail accident.
Most derailments happen because of fractures in railway tracks, erosion underneath, or mechanical problems in the rolling stock. A preliminary inquiry into the West Bengal accident revealed “soil erosion” had led to the tracks sinking, causing the derailment.
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