India - Three trains collide, over 120 dead - Balasore district, Odisha state, 2 June 2023

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India train crash: More than 280 dead after Odisha incident

The collision involving two passenger services in Odisha state has left about 900 people injured.

www.bbc.com

It is believed that several carriages from the Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express derailed at around 19:00 local time (13:30 GMT), with some of them ending up on the opposite track.

Another train - the Howrah Superfast Express travelling from Yesvantpur to Howrah - is then thought to have hit the overturned carriages.

Indian officials said that a goods train - which was stationary at the site - was also involved in the incident. They provided no further details. [note: goods = freight]

Live updates from the Hindustan Times:

Odisha train accident LIVE: 120 killed, over 800 injured; rescue op continues

The death toll in the three-train crash accident in Odisha's Balasore has risen to 70, PTI reported in the latest update on the tragedy.

www.hindustantimes.com

 

[Sarahlou]

How tragic, poor people.

 

[iamshadow21]

ABC News (Australian public broadcaster) says death toll is over 200, so far.

Train collision in eastern India kills more than 200, injures hundreds more

 

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Now up to 288.

India train crash: More than 280 dead after Odisha incident

The collision involving two passenger services in Odisha state has left about 900 people injured.

www.bbc.com

 

[Marysmith]

How awful!!

 

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A sequence of events has already been worked out in the preliminary:

Odisha tragedy: How the 3 trains collided into each other | India News - Times of India

India News: NEW DELHI: A series of disasterous events unfolded in Odisha's Balasore on Friday evening when three trains got involved in one of India's deadliest r.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The paper does not allow quoting; however, the event is being well-covered by Wikipedia.

2023 Odisha train collision - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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Location on OpenRailwayMap, showing the passing siding or loop (you have to zoom in):

OpenRailwayMap

OpenRailwayMap - An OpenStreetMap-based project for creating a map of the world's railway infrastructure.

www.openrailwaymap.org

The line, like most railway lines in India, is electrified at 25,000 V 50 Hz AC.
The location on Bing, satellite resolution is better than that on Google:

Bing Maps

Map multiple locations, get transit/walking/driving directions, view live traffic conditions, plan trips, view satellite, aerial and street side imagery. Do more with Bing Maps.

www.bing.com

 

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India train disaster: Signal fault the likely cause, minister says

India's Railway Board says there was "some kind of signalling interference".

www.bbc.com

India's railway minister has suggested a signal fault led to the Odisha rail disaster, with a "change in electronic interlocking" the likely cause.

Ashwini Vaishnaw later said the cause and people responsible for the deadly three-train crash in eastern India had been identified but did not elaborate.

India's Railway Board said there had been "some kind of signalling interference" rather than failure.

A report into India's worst rail accident this century is due later.

 

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Railway workers help to restore services at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore, India, on Sunday.

Amid scorching summer heat, rescue workers struggled through upended and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains, on which 2,000 people were on board at the time of the crash, to rescue survivors and bring out the dead bodies.

Hospitals in the town of Balasore and surrounding cities were flooded with injured — who were ferried in ambulances, tractors and private cars — as the death toll rose over the weekend. Dead bodies, covered by white sheets, lay on the rail tracks near the wreckage, while rescuers and local volunteers pushed to bring out hundreds of trapped passengers from the rail cars under the twisted metal and shattered glass. Air force choppers and Indian army soldiers were also pressed into service to help rescuers and transport the injured to hospitals.

Rescue workers inspect damaged carriages at the accident site of a three-train collision near Balasore on Sunday.

Initial findings have revealed that the train derailment was caused by an error in electronic signals that put a train onto the wrong tracks. India's railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is facing calls to resign, has been monitoring the rescue and restoration efforts from the accident spot and said on Sunday that it will come out in the investigation "who has done it and what is the reason."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180056017/india-missing-train-crash-nephew

 

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Initial findings have revealed that the train derailment was caused by an error in electronic signals that put a train onto the wrong tracks. India's railway minister, Ashwini Vaishnaw, who is facing calls to resign, has been monitoring the rescue and restoration efforts from the accident spot and said on Sunday that it will come out in the investigation "who has done it and what is the reason."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180056017/india-missing-train-crash-nephew

RSBBM
This type of error is known as a wrong-side failure.

Wrong-side failure - Wikipedia

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