Train engine derails in Haryana, no injury reported
October 2nd, 2009 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANSKurukshetra (Haryana), Oct 2 (IANS) A passenger train derailed in this Haryana district Friday, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Ambala-Delhi route, officials said. No one was injured in the incident.
According to a Government Railway Police (GRP) official at Kurukshetra, the engine of the train went off the tracks after colliding with a buffalo Friday morning.
Another engine had to be called to pull the train, she said, adding all the passengers were safe and the train suffered no other damage.
Some of the trains on the route were delayed and some were diverted to other routes, a railway official said.
“Due to this holdup on the route, Himalayan Queen train from Delhi to Kalka got late by around one-and-a-half hours whereas the Kalka to Delhi Shatabdi was late by nearly half an hour,” R.K. Dutta, the superintendent of Chandigarh railway station, told IANS.
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