Signal: Employees of Signal and Telecom Department responsible for Balasore train accident: CRS report | India News – Times of India

Lucknow: Investigation of Balasore The train tragedy has now confirmed that mistake and negligence. SignalAnd the employees of the Department of Telecom were responsible for the tragic train accident on June 2 in which more than 290 passengers were killed. TOI had reported a few days after the incident that the tragedy was suspected to be due to the negligence of the S&T staff.
AM Choudhary, commissioner of railway safety, south-eastern zone, said, “Laxities at several levels in the S&T department were responsible for this (Shalimar-Chennai) Coromandel Express) crash.” Some of these lapses also included incorrect labeling of wires.

June 2 at 18:56, at Bahanaga Bazar The Coromandel Express hit a goods train standing on the loopline of the station from behind at the station in Balasore district of Odisha. last two coaches of Bangalore-Howrah ExpressThose passing on the down line (towards Howrah) at the same time were hit by the derailed coaches of the Coromandel Express and overturned.

“The previous collision was due to a fault in ‘signalling-circuit-change’ at Bahnaga Bazar station (North Signal Gumtree) carried out on the previous day,” the report said.
While executing signaling work (related to replacement of electric lifting barrier for level crossing gate no. 94) at the railway station on the evening of 2 June, S&T staff were informed by discrepancies such as incorrect labeling of wires inside the level-crossing location box. was mishandled (2015), which remained undisclosed for years, previous red-flags (2018) were also ignored, which ultimately led to disturbances during maintenance work.

“These flaws resulted in the Coromandel Express receiving incorrect signalling, in which the Up mainline signal indicated green for train movement, but the crossover connecting the Up mainline to the Up loopline was set to the Up loopline; Incorrect signaling resulted in the Coromandel Express going on the up loop line, and eventually rammed into the rear of a goods train parked there,” read a report submitted by confidential report On 29 June.
The CRS also found that about two weeks before the accident (May 16), a similar incident had occurred at Bankra Nayabaz station in Kharagpur division of South-Eastern Railway due to wrong wiring and cable fault. CRS in its report wrote, “Had corrective steps been taken after the incident to address the issue of wrong wiring, the accident at Bahnaga Bazar station would not have happened.”