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#WATCH | Kanchenjunga Express train accident: Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw visits North Bengal Medical College in Siliguri and meets the injured.(Source: Railway CPRO) pic.twitter.com/cp1pg6tHZG
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Anti-train collision system not in place on mishap route: Railway Board
The Railways’ ‘Kavach’ or anti-train collision system was not in place along the Guwahati-Delhi route, where a goods train collided with the Sealdah Kanchanjunga Express in the rear on Monday, a top official said.
Chairperson of the Railway Board Jaya Varma Sinha said that Kavach, an automatic anti-collision train protection system, is being planned for the route.
"It is not there right now," she said.
Pointing towards a possible “human error” on part of the loco pilot of the goods train who succumbed to injuries from the accident, Sinha said the collision near New Jalpaiguri may have happened because the goods train disregarded the signal and hit the Kanchanjungha Express, which was on way to Sealdah from Agartala.
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw visits train accident site in Bengal's Rangapani
Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw visited the site of the train collision at Rangapani near New Jalpaiguri station in West Bengal on Monday afternoon and took stock of the situation.
Vaishnaw rode pillion on a motorbike for some distance to the accident site as the road was narrow for bigger vehicles to move.