Mumbai:Union Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu on Monday confirmed that he has ordered an enquiry into the Churchgate mishap, after a local train rammed into the dead end at the railway station, leaving a woman seriously injured.
The speeding train, coming from Bhayander, rammed into the dead end on platform number 3 of Churchgate station at about 11.20 am, as the motorman failed to stop the train in time. As a result, its first coach jumped onto the south-end concourse of the platform.
The impact of the train’s collision with the platform’s dead end was so huge that the wheels of the first coach got hanged into the air, ripping apart all the technical equipment in its lower part and also the overhead wire. Following the incident, the Western Railway (WR) has launched an inquiry and suspended the motorman of the local, its guard and loco inspector.
Bureau Report
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