A day after a passenger practice rammed right into a stationary freight practice close to Chennai, specialists and union leaders stated in keeping with the data-logger video, the Mysuru-Darbhanga Categorical practice was given a inexperienced sign to cross by means of the primary line, nevertheless, it entered a loop line already occupied by the freight practice.
Practice quantity 12578, Mysuru-Darbhanga Bagmati Categorical, collided with the stationary items practice on the Kavaraippettai railway station within the Chennai rail division in Tamil Nadu at round 8:30 pm on Friday, resulting in accidents to 9 passengers.
The information logger is a tool positioned within the station space to seize practice actions and sign features, amongst different issues.
This knowledge logger’s yard-simulation video has been circulated amongst senior railway officers’ WhatsApp teams since Saturday morning, prompting them to attract a parallel between the accident and the Balasore practice collision of June 2, 2023.
When contacted, the chief public relations officer (CPRO) of the Southern Railway stated he’s not conscious of any such video and that a number of investigations have already been initiated into the collision.
In a press assertion launched late on Friday, the Railway Board additionally admitted that the passenger practice was given a inexperienced sign for the primary line however it skilled a jerk and entered the loop line, ensuing within the collision with the freight practice. A high-level enquiry has been ordered into the incident.
The board stated on Saturday that the commissioner of railway security will conduct an in depth investigation as he visited the accident web site within the morning.
Balasore, Chennai Practice Accidents
In Balasore, the Howrah-bound Coromandel Categorical was given a inexperienced sign for the primary line. Nevertheless, as a result of fallacious interlocking of tracks, it entered a loop line and collided with a stationary items practice.
“Primarily based on the data obtainable within the public area, it seems that this collision virtually repeats the Balasore practice collision of June 2, 2023. The railways ought to take a severe strategy to take away the anomalies within the signalling system,” R Kumaresan, president, All India Loco Working Employees Affiliation (AILRSA), Southern Railway, stated.
In keeping with security specialists, in an automatic-signalling system, the sign facet follows the interlocking of tracks. It means if the sign is inexperienced for the primary line, the interlocking will mechanically be set in such a method that the practice comes on the primary line.
“The shortage of coordination between sign facet and interlocking occurs because of some fault within the signalling system. Prime facie, it seems to be some sort of a technical glitch,” a security professional stated, requesting anonymity.
Sanjay Pandhi, the working president of the Indian Railway Loco Runningmen’s Organisation (IRLRO), expressed shock as in keeping with him, all earlier trains handed by means of the stated station “with none abnormalities within the signalling and interlocking system”.
“In Balasore, the collision occurred quickly after the signal-repair work was over. Opposite to that, there was no such factor reported on the Kavaraippettai railway station and practice operations have been regular.
“So it seems that some malfunction, which might be corrosion of mechanical tools and many others., may need occurred, resulting in a coordination break of sign and interlocking,” Pandhi stated.
Ok P Arya, who retired because the chief sign and telecom engineer/data know-how within the Northern Railway, stated, “The information logger’s yard-simulation video exhibits that the practice involved is occurring each the primary line in addition to the loop line, which isn’t potential.” “So there’s a risk that the practice may need derailed on the interlocking level and whereas the engine and a few coaches headed in the direction of the loop line and collided with the freight practice, the remaining coaches scattered throughout, infringing the primary line as nicely,” he added.
Arya stated it’s a widely-known (however by no means formally acknowledged) engineering defect of tracks and interlocking-point mechanisms, which may trigger such a derailment.
“I’ve gone on highlighting this facet throughout my numerous tenures to the Railway Board in addition to to the commissioner of railway security,” he stated.
The specialists stated a transparent image would solely emerge after an intensive investigation, which is already on.
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