Bundle of cloth derails local
A bundle of clothes dropped by a lady passenger at the track caused derailment of a harbour local at 4.30 pm near Wadala Road station. One pair of wheels of the motormen’s coach, which is the first coach from the CST end, was derailed. However, none of the passengers were injured as the train was travelling at a very slow speed as it was approaching the platform.
The woman who threw the clothes was in the earlier train and came back to retrieve her bundle. But by then the next train had already derailed.
When the woman was found loitering on the tracks, the police questioned her and she admitted to being the one who threw the bundle down from the train. She was arrested under section of 150 of the Railway Act by the Wadala GRP. Meanwhile, Harbour Line services were disrupted for 20 minutes.
According to a railway official, “A woman had a few bundles of clothes, which she tried to hurl outside the window to the space between the two tracks before reaching Wadala station so that she could avoid ticket checking.”
Unfortunately, the bundle fell on the tracks itself and when the next train came, it got entangled around the wheels
resulting in the derailment.
“We started efforts to restore the services instantly. Harbour Line traffic at Wadala was normalised by running the trains via platform number 3 from 4.50 pm. Two down Harbour Line trains were diverted via the main line as the power line was switched off for 20 minutes as a precautionary measure. Six trains were stuck behind the derailed train,” said Vidyadhar Malega-onkar, chief PRO, CR,In another case, a Kalyan bound-local faced a unit failure at 6.50 pm, when it reached Kalwa and Mumbra stations. Thou-sands of passengers were inconvenienced as locals piled up one behind the other.
The CR engineers got these services restored in 15 minutes.
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