Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has given a big statement regarding the train accident in Balasore, Odisha. He has said that the cause of the accident has been known. Along with this, he has also said that the situation will be normal by Wednesday.
Coromandel Express Accident: Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav has given a big statement on the Balasore train accident in Odisha. He has said that the real cause of the train accident has been known. Actually Ashwini Vaishnav reached the spot again on Sunday. Here he encouraged the workers and took stock of the situation. Ashwini and his counterpart Dharmendra Pradhan stayed at the spot all night and were engaged in getting the route restored.
With this, he told that today he will try to restore the track. All the bodies have been taken out. Our target is to restore the track and start movement of trains by Wednesday (June 7) morning. So that trains can start running again on this track.
During this, while giving information, Ashwini Vaishnav told that the real reason for the accident has been known. The investigation into the train accident has been completed and the Commissioner of Railway Safety has taken up the matter. Soon the Safety Commissioner will send his report and all the facts will come out.
On Mamata Banerjee’s allegation of not wearing ‘armour’, the Railway Minister said, “The safety armor that Mamata said yesterday is not correct… She spoke as much as she knew about it, but those things are not applicable here. Armor has no use here. He said Mamata did not give “any other reason” for the accident. Ashwini Vaishnav said the incident happened due to change in electronic interlocking. In fact, Mamta Banerjee had said on Saturday that if there was an anti-collision system on the route, this accident would not have happened.
Railway traffic chart reveals what happened at the time of the accident
The Indian Railways traffic chart reveals what actually happened during the Odisha train accident. Let us inform that so far 288 people have died in this accident and hundreds of people are injured. There are three tracks visible in the chart, one is the loop line, the other is the up line and the third is the down line.
When the passenger train passes through the track, the goods train is put on the loop line to get them ahead of the goods train, so that the passenger train can pass through the main line. In the Odisha accident, it happened that the goods train was standing on the loop line and the Coromandel Express was coming on the up line, but it is feared that due to a fault in the signal, the Coromandel Express also went into the loop line and collided with the goods train standing there. Due to this the bogies of Coromandel Express derailed and overturned on the up line and down line. Then the Bengaluru Express came on the down line and collided with the coaches of the Coromandel Express lying on the track. In this way, in a few minutes, this horrific accident took place, which took the lives of about three hundred people.
