[ad_1]
MUMBAI: Three on-duty Western Railway employees, including a chief signalling inspector, who had finished fixing a signal failure were killed on the spot after being run over by a suburban train between Vasai and Naigaon stations on Monday night. WR divisional railway manager (DRM) Niraj Verma, who visited the site, has ordered a probe.
The families sought to know how the victims—chief signalling inspector Vasu Mitra (55), electrical signalling maintainer Somnath Lambutre (36), and helper Sachin Wankhede (37)—who were familiar with the tracks and signals could be run over by a train.
“My brother had 28 years of experience in the railways. He knew every signal and train timings. How is it possible that a train could run over the three men?” asked Anubha Kapil, Mitra’s cousin. She said Mitra, a resident of Evershine City in Vasai, was on round-the-clock duty. He reported to work at Vasai on Monday. By 9pm, his wife, Mohini, got a call from his colleagues that he had met with an accident. Kapil said Mitra had reported to work in the night on several occasions when there were signal failures.
Verma told TOI that after the signal failure took place at 6.58pm, train services were stopped and the WR employees fixed it at 7.32pm. He said train services resumed after that and the accident took place on the up slow line at 8.55pm. “When you are outside, you not only attend to failures and come back, but also want to see other things regarding railway signalling systems. Nobody knows what happened and it is a matter of inquiry,” said Verma.
The families sought to know how the victims—chief signalling inspector Vasu Mitra (55), electrical signalling maintainer Somnath Lambutre (36), and helper Sachin Wankhede (37)—who were familiar with the tracks and signals could be run over by a train.
“My brother had 28 years of experience in the railways. He knew every signal and train timings. How is it possible that a train could run over the three men?” asked Anubha Kapil, Mitra’s cousin. She said Mitra, a resident of Evershine City in Vasai, was on round-the-clock duty. He reported to work at Vasai on Monday. By 9pm, his wife, Mohini, got a call from his colleagues that he had met with an accident. Kapil said Mitra had reported to work in the night on several occasions when there were signal failures.
Verma told TOI that after the signal failure took place at 6.58pm, train services were stopped and the WR employees fixed it at 7.32pm. He said train services resumed after that and the accident took place on the up slow line at 8.55pm. “When you are outside, you not only attend to failures and come back, but also want to see other things regarding railway signalling systems. Nobody knows what happened and it is a matter of inquiry,” said Verma.
[ad_2]
Source link