7th train sabotage attempt thwarted in Uttar Pradesh
LUCKNOW: On Sunday night, June 1, the railway tracks near Dohna station in Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly district became the scene of yet another alarming sabotage attempt—the seventh such incident in the state this summer.
Around 11:55 pm, alert loco-pilots and the train manager of the 05307 Tanakpur-Bareilly City passenger train spotted trouble on the tracks and acted swiftly to prevent a potential disaster.
The culprits, still unidentified, had tampered with the point mechanism, system that guides trains between tracks at junctions. They stuffed ballast—the crushed stones that stabilize railway tracks—between the tongue rail and stock rail, jamming the mechanism designed to ensure smooth train transitions.
The tongue rail, a tapered, movable rail that fits snugly against the fixed stock rail (of the main track), was left inoperable, threatening to derail the train by disrupting its path.
Adding to the sabotage, the unidentified miscreants bent the earthing plate, a flat metal component connecting the overhead equipment (OHE) to the switch expansion joint rail (SWJR). The SWJR allows rails to expand and contract with temperature changes while maintaining the switch's functionality.
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Station Master Bhupinder Arora of Dohna station reported the incident via a memo, prompting immediate action. The Northeastern Railway's Izzatnagar division confirmed the sabotage, and an FIR was filed at Bhojipura station under Section 150 of the Railway Act (malicious attempts to wreck trains).
Senior Superintendent of Police Anurag Arya said, that a team has been formed to track down those responsible for this dangerous act.
This incident is part of a troubling pattern in Uttar Pradesh. Just a night earlier, on May 31, loco-pilots of the 64021 Delhi-Shamli MEMU train averted disaster when they spotted a 12-foot iron pipe, ballast, and a broken concrete tube placed on the tracks near Shamli station. Before that, on the intervening night May 29-30, an attempt to derail the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Tejas Rajdhani Express (22824) was foiled after ballast was found on the tracks between Bheerpur and Meja Road in Prayagraj.
In the same month, two attempts to derail Delhi-Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express (20504) and Kathgodam Express (15044) were recorded on May 19, near Dalelnagar and Umar Tali stations of Hardoi district, when an unknown person had kept wooden log on rail track.
The state has seen a string of similar incidents in recent months:
April 22, 2025: A nearly six feet long and three feet wide metal door was found on the rail track between Utraitai Junction and Bakkas railway station.
The matter came to light after a freight train hit the metal door, which led to damage of several pandrol clips that hold rail with concrete sleeper.
April 16, 2025: Delhi-bound Garib Rath express narrowly avoided derailment after striking a mango tree branch placed on the rail track in Malihabad area of Lucknow.
October 6, 2024: An alert loco-pilot promptly brought 04251 Rae-Bareli Junction-Raghuraj Singh passenger train to a halt after detecting a heap of soil impeding the railway tracks near Raghuraj Singh station, preventing a potential derailment.
October 2, 2024: A fire extinguisher belonging to the railways was discovered on the tracks near Ambiyapur station in Kanpur dehat.
September 29, 2024: A fire extinguisher was found on the rail tracks between Govindpuri and Bhimsen stations in Kanpur. The extinguisher belonged to the railways.
September 22, 2024: A mini empty gas cylinder was found on a loopline at Prempur railway station, an intermediate station between Kanpur Central and Fatehpur in the North Central Railway (NCR) zone.
September 16, 2024: Delhi bound Swatantrata Senani Express's (12561) loco-engine suffered failure, after it hit a wooden log lying on a rail track between Ghazipur Ghat and Ghazipur City railway station.
September 9, 2024: LPG filled gas cylinder kept on rail track between Barrajpur and Utripura on the Kanpur-Kasganj route, was hit by Bhiwani-bound Kalindi Express (14117).
December 6, 2023: Rail kept on track was crushed by Banaras bound Shiv Ganga express (12560) in Khurja area of Bulandshahr . Police recovered a total seven chunks of rail.
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