NEW DELHI - Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India's deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday (June 4). At least 275 people were killed on Friday when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the tracks and hit another passenger train passing...
NEW DELHI - Investigators are probing an electronic track management system that they suspect malfunctioned and caused India's deadliest train crash in more than two decades, railways officials said on Sunday .
In their first detailed briefing on the crash, Indian Railways officials said that failure of the track management system was the main focus of investigations. It also coordinates and controls the signal to an oncoming train, indicating whether the train has to move straight or switch to a new track, he said.
The crash caused the engine and the first four or five coaches of the Coromandel Express to jump the tracks, topple and hit the last two coaches of the Yeshwantpur-Howrah train heading in the opposite direction on the second main track, she said.
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