Goods and container trains at the Tughlakabad Railway Station. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/MintBalasore (Odisha): Six coal-laden wagons of a goods train travelled for two kilometres m without an engine in Balasore, an incident which comes a week after an express train in Titlagarh travelled for 10 km without an engine. The incident occurred when six wagons of a goods train from Dhamara to Jamshedpur got detached from the rest of the train and travelled about 2 km, without an engine, between Khantapada and Bahanaga stations on Saturday night, a railway official said. “The last six wagons got detached from the train due to snapping of coupling and some mechanical fault which was immediately resolved,” the station manager of Balasore Railway Station, Bhagabat Das, said. An engine was sent to Bahanaga railway station to bring the detached wagons and attach them to the train before it proceeded to its destination, said Das.

Source: Mint April 15, 2018 09:44 UTC