The passengers of a Kolkata local train had a providential escape when the EMU train they were travelling in grazed past another train on Wednesday afternoon at the entry point of the Sealdah station supposedly the busiest train terminus in the country.
The accident that led to no injuries resulted in the entire train services from Sealdah North station getting choked for several hours, Railway authorities said.
The accident occurred when the driver of one of the EMU trains bound for the car-shed overshot the signal by a few metres and stopped barely a couple of feet ahead of a level junction of two tracks.
The other EMU train going to Ranaghat grazed past the driver’s cabin of the first train leading to the first train getting derailed.
As the second train was at a very low speed a major accident was averted, E Chakrabarty the Eastern Railway CPRO said.
A senior official of the Sealdah Division after a preliminary inquiry
said the driver of the car-shed bound train for whose fault the mishap
occurred had been suspended. An inquiry too had been ordered, he said.
Regards,
Saugar
