Another derailment bid was thwarted in Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli after loco pilots of a train spotted a heap of sand dumped on the railway tracks. The incident took place near Raghuraj Singh station in Raebareli on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday (October 6-7), said the police, reported India Today.
The soil was removed from the track after loco pilots flagged the issue and rail traffic was resumed on the route. "A small pile of soil was dumped on the railway track because of which a shuttle train from Raibareli was stopped," said an official of the Raebareli Police.
According to locals, road construction is underway in the area which involves the use of dumpers to transport soil at night. On Sunday, a dumper driver dumped the soil onto the railway track and fled, police official Devendra Bhadoria said, adding further investigation is underway into the matter.
The incident comes amid a series of similar train derailment bids in the state.
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On Saturday, a loco pilot of the Patalkot Express applied emergency breaks after spotting an iron rod on railway tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Lalitpur under Jhansi district.
Earlier in September, a major train accident was narrowly avoided after an LPG cylinder was found on the rail tracks near Perambur Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district. Spotting the rod, the loco pilot of a goods train promptly applied the brakes.
In another incident last month, Kalindi Express, travelling from Prayagraj to Bhiwani in Haryana hit an LPG cylinder placed on a stretch of railway tracks in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur.
A similar incident was reported from Punjab as well where Government Railway Police in Bathinda spotted nine iron rods from the tracks of the Delhi-Bathinda Express on September 22.