Three coaches of the 22850 Secunderabad-Shalimar Superfast Express derailed near Nagpur in Howrah district on Saturday morning before entering the Shalimar railway station in the same district.
Although the three coaches that got derailed included one parcel coach and two passenger coaches, there had been no report of casualty or injury as yet, confirmed the chief public relations officer (CPRO) of South Eastern Railways, Om Prakash Charan.
The derailment happened while the train was changing its track from the middle line to the downline. “Buses were arranged so that the passengers could be brought back to the destination,” Charan said in a video statement issued on Saturday morning.
However, railway sources said that because of the derailment, normal railway services on that particular line were hampered to a great extent in the early morning hours on Saturday. They said that the express train was running at around 40 kilometres per …