Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 4 (ANI): Railway skilled Sudhanshu Mani on Sunday mentioned that it isn’t within the arms of the motive force which route the prepare will take and within the Odisha prepare accident, it was not the motive force’s fault.
Whereas speaking to ANI, Sudhanshu Mani mentioned, “I really feel there may be tampering. Whether or not sabotage occurred or there may be an error from upkeep workers is a topic of investigation. The route was set for the primary line by the workers and there’s no fault of the motive force. He was operating at full pace, as a substitute of coming within the loop line, he went to the primary line as observe was set, after which the accident occurred.”
He acknowledged that security procedures ought to have been in place in order that two trains don’t come on the identical line.
“Which route the prepare will take is is just not within the arms of the motive force, the place the observe takes him, the prepare runs on the identical. Security ought to have been maintained that two trains don’t come collectively on the identical line, whether or not within the loop line or within the mail line. There’s a set of interlocking, on this interlocking works, it’s known as digital interlocking,” he mentioned.
“Interlocking failure can occur however in case of interlocking failure, it is going to go into secure mode, the place accident scenario is not going to come up. Whether or not it’s a case of tampering or a shortcut was utilized or whether or not it was finished with some prison intent shall be solely identified after the investigation,” he added.
He additional talked about that it’s troublesome to investigate whether or not Kavach digital security system would have prevented the prepare accident in Odisha.
“Folks don’t know the distinction between Anti Collision Machine and Kavach. Let me let you know that even when it had Kavach, and if it was was tampered with, the Kavach would contemplate it because the route of the mail line and when it reaches close to the purpose, it will have come to know by means of RFID that the prepare is now happening the flawed route. However with out understanding the perform of Kavach, it’s flawed to say that if there was Kavach, the accident would have been averted,” he mentioned.
In the meantime, 275 folks have been killed and over 1000 had been left injured after the tragic three-train accident in Odisha’s Balasore on Friday night time.
Seventeen coaches of two passenger trains had been de-railed in Odisha, when Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Categorical, the Coromandel Categorical and a items prepare collided at Bahanaga Bazar Station in Balasore district.
Earlier at the moment Railway Board member Jaya Varma Sinha citing premiliary investigation mentioned there was some problem with the signalling and solely Coromandel Categorical met with an accident in Balasore.
“In response to the preliminary findings, there was some problem with the signalling. We’re nonetheless ready for the detailed report from the Commissioner of Railway Security. Solely Coromandal Categorical met with an accident. The prepare was at a pace of round 128 km/h,” Jaya Varma Sinha mentioned.
“The derailed bogies of Coromandel Categorical got here on the downline and hit the final two bogies of Yashwantpur Categorical which was crossing on the pace of 126 km/h from downline,” she added. (ANI)
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