Goods train derailment: Railways clarify train derailed inside Gujarat’s Dungri station yard; no traffic affected

The Western Railway said on Friday that a trolley wheel of a goods train derailed inside the yard of Dungri station of the Mumbai division. Railways clarified that traffic was not affected, and the realignment was done soon after.

Earlier, news agency PTI reported that a wagon of a goods train derailed between Valsad and Surat stations in Gujarat citing a Western Railway official. The report claimed no casualties in the incident.

The PTI report claimed that traffic on the route was affected due to the incident that took place near Dungri station around 3 pm.

The goods train was heading towards Surat.

It is important to note that the derailment on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad trunk route occurred when Union railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw was taking stock of railway safety and other issues at the Western Railway headquarters in Mumbai.

Earlier on Thursday, at least four people were killed and 20 others injured after multiple coaches of the Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derailed near Gonda in Uttar Pradesh.

Eight coaches of the train derailed between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations, about 150 km from the state capital, on the Gonda-Gorakhpur section of the Northeast Railway on Thursday afternoon.

"Train number 15904 Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express that left Wednesday night from Chandigarh derailed near Gonda Junction station between Motiganj and Jhilahi railway stations at around 2.37 pm on Thursday under the jurisdiction of North Eastern Railway (NER)," Sabyasachi De, a spokesperson said.

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Meanwhile, the General Manager of North Eastern Railways, Saumya Mathur, told ANI today that the restoration work is underway, and the upline will be restored within a few hours.

"The restoration work is underway. The checking process is being done and within some hours, the upline will be restored. On the second line, you are seeing that the work is underway. We are working to ensure that the entire section gets restored by this evening. We are working to ensure that the entire section gets restored by this evening," ANI quoted Mathur as saying.

The Railway Ministry has ordered a high-level inquiry in addition to the probe by the Commission of Railway Safety.

The ministry has announced an enhanced ex-gratia amount of ₹10 lakh to be given to the relatives of those killed. The grievously injured passengers will get ₹2.5 lakh and those with minor injuries ₹50,000.