: A fire broke out in the Bhubaneswar-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express at the Cuttack railway station on Thursday morning.
The train was en route to Howrah from Bhubaneswar. The fire erupted beneath a coach when the train halted on Platform No. 2 at the Cuttack station at around 6.35 am.
Firefighters and RPF personnel de-boarded all passengers from the train and brought the flame under control before it spread to other coaches.
After 30 minutes, the passengers were asked to go inside their coaches. The train service resumed after a technical examination by railway engineers.
The East Coast Railway (ECoR) clarified that the incident occurred due to brake-binding.
“Due to brake-binding (brake not released from wheel), 12074 Bhubaneswar-Howrah Jan Shatabdi Express detained at Cuttack Railway Station from 6:30 hrs. After releasing the brake from the wheel, the train departed from Cuttack at about 7:15 hrs.
The cause of non-release of brake is being investigated,” the ECoR stated.
