Thread: India train collision kills 288+

Terrible

I took that train (Coramandel 'Express') on a trip about 27 years ago.

It was packed shoulder to shoulder for the first couple of hours.

Awful news.

Originally Posted by cyrille

I took that train (Coramandel 'Express') on a trip about 27 years ago.

It was packed shoulder to shoulder for the first couple of hours.

so relieved you survived unharmed.

thoughts and prayers.

You're being more of a dick than usual today, tax.

Not an easy feat.

what was the point of your response to a post about over 200 dying in an indian train crash informing us that 27 years ago you took a train in india and it was crowded. every train in india is crowded.

triggered so sent me a red cyrille. you childish fool.

Originally Posted by taxexile

so relieved you survived unharmed.

This was a shitty comment

God when I saw this last night it was a dozen, kind of knew it would go up. RIP all, Bless, Sathu ��

Reports indicate a train derailed and another collided into it. One or both trains then also collided with a nearby freight train. What a mess. 280 dead, 900 or more injured.

^what a tragedy

To those who lost their lives - RIP. I hope the injured ones get adequate medical care.

Originally Posted by DrWilly

Reports indicate a train derailed and another collided into it. One or both trains then also collided with a nearby freight train.

From the Beeb today...

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The crash saw a passenger train collide with a stationary goods train and derail, after being wrongly directed onto a loop track by the side of the main line. Derailed carriages then struck the rear carriages of a second passenger train passing in the opposite direction.

At a press conference on Sunday, Jaya Verma Sinha from India's Railway Board said both passenger trains had approached a Balasore district station under a green signal - indicating it was safe - within seconds of each other at the correct speed of under 130kph (81mph). She said the passenger trains had been supposed to pass each other on the main lines but the Coromandel Express rammed into an iron ore-laden freight train on the loop line, causing the engine and some coaches to lift over the top of the heavy goods carriages. The passenger train took the entire impact on collision and the freight train was not derailed, or even moved, she told reporters.

The Howrah Superfast Express had nearly crossed in the opposite direction, but two of its rear coaches were struck by the derailed Coromandel Express.

Ms Verma Sinha said there was "no issue with the electronic interlocking system" and said investigations indicated "some kind of a signalling interference" rather than failure.