BALASORE, India The derailment in eastern India that killed 275 people and injured hundreds was caused by an error in the electronic signaling system that led a train to wrongly change tracks and crash into a freight train, officials said Sunday.
Union Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said that the train accident at Odisha’s Balasore, which has left 275 people dead and over 1,000 injured, was caused due to a ‘change in the electronic interlocking system’. Since the tragedy took place on Friday night, many are also wondering if Kavach, the Railway’s automatic protection system could have averted such a disaster. But what are these systems? How do they impact the functioning of trains?
NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) - Inspectors are looking into the electronic track management system that caused India's worst train accident in more than two