Low speed averts accident as train hits iron grille placed on track
train accident
was averted when the Anand Vihar Terminal-Gorakhpur
Humsafar Express
(12572) hit an iron grille placed on the railway track in Dilkusha-Malhaur section of Lucknow around 3am on Sunday.
Since the train was running at a very slow speed, a major accident was averted.
This was the eighth train sabotage attempt in Uttar Pradesh and third in Lucknow since April.
Senior section engineer (P-way) Rajiv Srivastava filed an FIR against unidentified people at Gomtinagar police station late Sunday night under sections 151 (damage to or destruction of certain railway properties) and 153 (endangering the safety of railway passengers) of the Railway Act.
"Around 3.40 am, the control was informed that the train (12572) had hit an iron grille kept on the Dilkusha-Malhaur section," the FIR read.
After the incident, loco pilots of the train removed the grille from the track. "Since the train was at low speed, the possibility of derailment had reduced," an official source from the Northern Railway, Lucknow division, said.
Similar incidents have been reported in UP for the last three months.
On June 1 night, an unidentified person had 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 near Dohna station in Bareilly district (Northeastern Railway's Izzatnagar division).
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.
Unidentified miscreants had also 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.
Similarly, 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.
On the intervening night of 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.
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 a wooden log was found on the track.
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