No passenger was physically affected owing to the incident, the official said. The coupling between the third and fourth coaches behind the engine got detached leading to the detainment of the train for a little over two hours, the SER official said. West Bengal: Coupling Between Two Coaches of Howrah-Titlagarh Ispat Express Gets Detached at Santragachi Station.
Jamshedpur: The movement of 23 passenger trains was affected on the busy Howrah-Mumbai route on Wednesday due to a blockade at the Goilkera railway station in West Singhbhum. A local outfit called Nagrik Ekta Manch started the blockade at 8:30am and lifted it seven hours later at 3:30pm. The organisation is demanding stoppage of five long-distance express and superfast trains at Goilkera.
The protesters agreed to suspend their protest for a week following much persuasion by the officials of the Chakradharpur railway division.
“We have appealed to the leaders of the outfit to wait for a response from the railway board regarding the stoppage of trains,” the senior divisional commercial manager of Chakradharpur, Manish Pathak, said.