Deadly India rail crash caused by faulty signal connections made during repair
Bhubaneswar, India Reuters Workers repairing a rail-road barrier in India made faulty connections in the automated signalling system on the network, leading to the country’s worst rail disaster in two decades, an official probe has found. The 2nd June crash at Bahanaga Bazar station, in the eastern Indian state of Odisha, killed 288 people and injured more […]
Bahanaga Bazar, the rural Indian train station rocked by disaster
Bahanaga Bazar, India Reuters Few trains stop at Bahanaga Bazar, the sleepy, small rural station in the Balasore district of Odisha state where India’s deadliest train accident in more than two decades happened. Three rooms, topped by a corrugated metal roof, and three platforms make up the station, which serves 14 trains daily, more than […]