Ranchi / Gumla: The railroad movement between the busy heart-bondamunda route, which connects Jharkhand and Odisha, was influenced for almost 24 hours after two trains collided between Pakra and Kurkura train stations in the SIMDega district on Saturday night.
The incident occurred at around 9:36 a.m.
on Saturday when a train of iron ore items, which headed to the Bokaro steel plant from Rourkela, crashed into a blank freight train leading to the Bondamunda Station from the Beiaia Station in Ranchi.
Because of a collision, the train diverts Ally-Dhanbad Express, Puri-Hata Express, Jammu Tawi-sambalpur Express through Chandil and Muri.
In a statement, the Ranchi Train Division said The Hata-Jharsuguda Memuku Passenger and Passenger Train Rourkela-Hatan-Be Canceled.
Vasco De Gama- Jasidih Express, Malda-letter Express, Sambalpur-treasure Express and Hatiia-Yeshwantpur Express was also diverted earlier that day.
The impact in such a way that as many as 11 shipping trainers, called N-Box in the train tradition, was damaged after slipping while three broken machines.
Pilot Loco and Pilot Loco assistant, identified as Ranjit Kumar and Sanjay Kumar (from the ore-loaded iron carriage) while Ashok Kumar Singh and Ranjit Kumar Rajah (from empty trains) fled.
The collision really stopped the train movement in stretching 93 km between the Hatia Station and Bano.
Four giant cranes, weighing 140 tons each, were moved from Bondamunda and Hata to the accident site to clean the debris and restore movement.
Senior officials from the Ranchi Train Division from the South East train rushed to the site to oversee the work of ruins.
SER pressed the probe team of five members to the place to ask for the incident.
“Detailed investigations are on their way to ascertain the cause of a collision while the work is carried out on the war footing to restore movement at 5 pm,” said the Senior Division Operation Manager Aditya Kumar Choudhary to Ti.
However, repairs still last until 7:30 a.m.
According to the initial evaluation, financial losses issued by the Indian train because collisions are between Rs 50 and Rs 60 Crore.
Each machine costs around Rs 20 Crore, the train source said.
In May this year, the Beiaia-Rourkela passenger train slipped into the soft earth with 84 passengers after rolling to the SIP siding line from the main line at Kanaroan Station along the same route.
In 2017, the loaded freight had rolled back in the same stretch and crashing into other goods train, instantly killed two Loco pilots.
Two trains collided in Simdega, services reach 24 hours
