Lakhs of suburban commuters traveling on the Central Railway (CR) had a harrowing time on Thursday as two wheels of a locomotive trolley of the 11301 Udyan Express were derailed at 8.14am.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred on the crossover point (a pair of switches that connects two parallel rail tracks, allowing a train on one track to cross over to the other) of platform number 17 of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST). The train\u2019s loco-pilot had been allegedly been speeding at the crossover point, the speed limit of which has been reduced from 15kmph to 10 kmph after the derailment.<\/p>\n
Suburban train morning peak hour services were affected as more than 75 suburban services were reported to be cancelled and 200 trains were delayed due to the incident<\/p>\n
About 40 long-distance trains were delayed by up to two and a half hours. A CR press release said 70 trains were cancelled and rest were running late by 20-30 minutes.<\/p>\n
All fast trains between the CST and Byculla stations were diverted to the slow corridor for two hours, disrupting slow trains.<\/p>\n
The railways resumed services on the fast corridor at 10:15, nearly two hours later. Passengers were not informed.<\/p>\n
Commuters complained that trains were delayed by over 40 minutes. The CR public relations team confirmed the derailment through a press release at 10.57, three hours after it occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Railways should have informed us through social networking sites or the media so that a rush could have been avoided. There was a stampede-like situation at the station, which could have jeopardised our safety,\u201d said Shruti Desai, a Mulund resid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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