Derailment of local train in CSMT, no casualties! After two and a half hours, the local train service was cancelled
Restoration: Staff carrying out restoration (restarting the train) operation on war footing after a coach of Panvel local train derailed at platform number one of CSMT. (Jai Prakash Kelkar)
(from our representative)
MUMBAI: Local train services were disrupted till Tuesday afternoon due to derailment of a coach of the Panvel local train on the Harbor Line, resulting in a day-long travel disruption for commuters. The official said that no one was injured in the derailment of the local train and thus an accident was avoided in the Central Railway.
After the Panvel local train got green signal from platform number one of CSMT and started the train, the local train collided with a buffer due to reverse and the fourth coach of the train derailed, in which no passenger was injured, a Central Railway official said. .
The incident took place at platform number one of CSMT at around 9.40 am on Tuesday, resulting in suspension of train services from CSMT to Panvel, Navi Mumbai and Goregaon-Bandra stations. Due to the derailment of the train, local train services were suspended till afternoon, leaving thousands of commuters traveling from CSMT to Navi Mumbai and Panvel stranded. Not only this, due to the bunching of trains in the CSMT yard, many commuters in both directions reached the nearby station by walking on the tracks.
The restoration work of local train coaches on platform number one was carried out on war footing, while trains were continued from platform number two on a temporary basis, a Central Railway official said.
Since the Harbor Line has a single corridor (slow line) every time the train service is lost, the entire section is affected, so a fast corridor is an urgent need. Due to train derailment in CSMT on Tuesday, train services were not running as usual from morning to afternoon, making it difficult for travelers to travel without local trains. Tuesday proved to be a costly day for tourists with some travelers forced to travel through Ola-Uber cars, said Kalbadevi-based Hemant Roy. It is worth mentioning that more than 45 lakh passengers were traveling in the Central Railway daily from the pre-Corona period, which includes about fifteen lakh passengers per day in the Harbor Line.
