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‘Furnace’, ‘human oven’: Why people are worried about non-AC local trains with closed doors in hot and humid MumbaiMumbai is introducing India's first non-AC suburban train with automatic sliding doors, a safety upgrade following a fatal accident. The ne...
Films, rucksacks, cycles, rods - new railway safety ideasTo make railway staff and passengers more aware at the time of mishaps, Northern Railway has come out with many innovative ideas.
Utkal train accident: 'Unofficial' track maintenance could be reasonWhile the railways is examining all possible reasons for the derailment, a top railways source said the mishap happened because of "mainten...
Mishaps on decline after safety measures in place: Railways dataSince unmanned level crossings are responsible for maximum number of train accidents, the railways intends to eliminate all such crossings ...
Train derail: Railway Minister announces inquiry, ex-gratiaThe Commissioner Railway Safety will conduct a detailed inquiry into the train mishap and submit the report at the earliest, Railway spokes...
Rail fracture suspected in Ajmer-Sealdah Express derailmentThough the real reasons behind the derailment would be ascertained after the completion of the inquiry, prime facie it seems a possible fra...
4 Railways employees charge-sheeted in Kalka-Shimla mishapFour Railway employees, including a driver, have been charge-sheeted in connection with the Kalka-Shimla toy train mishap at Parwanoo in Se...
271 train mishaps between April 2012 to November 2015: GovernmentOut of these, Sinha said, 190 accidents were due to the failure of railway staff while 29 happened on account of failure on part of people ...
Heavy rains appears to have led to rail mishap: Shivraj Singh ChouhanChouhan said the rail mishap in Harda district appeared to have been caused by heavy rains which led to the base of the track getting washe...
Monsoon caused 500-metre tracks in Madhya Pradesh to cave in: Chairman Railway Board AK Mital29 people were killed as two express trains derailed on the flooded tracks in the Itarsi-Khandwa section in Harda district of MP on August ...
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu orders inquiry into Bangalore-Ernakulam Inter City Express train derailment"Unfortunate rail accident in Karnataka, Boulder fell on track in Ghat section, train hit it. directed all sr officers to rush with full he...
East Central Railway to tap solar energy to light up crossingsAccording to sources, the number of railway crossing gates in ECR is about 2,113 of which 1,127 are manned and 986 are unmanned.
Train derailment: Death toll goes up to 21; traffic resumesThe death toll in the train derailment in Maharashtra's Raigad district has gone up to 21 even as the traffic on the affected stretch was r...
Railways advocate need for new tech to check fire mishapsExpressing concern over fire incidents in trains, Kharge said the audit will help railways improve quality of materials being used.
3 dead, 37 injured as Mangala Express derails near NashikThree passengers were killed and 37 others injured when ten coaches of a train derailed at Ghoti near Igatpuri in Nashik district.
Five elephants crushed under speeding train in OdishaA herd of five elephants and a foetus were mowed down after being hit by a speeding train near Subalaya in Ganjam district, about 50 km fro...
- Hathras train accident: 16 killed as train rams into jeep
Sixteen people were killed and two others seriously injured when the Mathura-Kasganj Express rammed into a jeep at an unmanned railway cros...
- 1,220 killed in various train mishaps in 5 years: Railway Board
Over 1200 persons were killed in various train mishaps in the last five years, with accidents at unmanned level crossings accounting for 71...
Ministers’ safety credentials: Jaffer Sharief fares the worstDoes Mamata Banerjee have the worst track record when it comes to railway safety?
Rail mishap: Opposition sees opportunity in tragedyLeft, BJP, Nitish, Lalu, Paswan tear apart minister’s sabotage theory; even govt dismisses speculation.