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Eight empty wagons of goods train derail in Andhra Pradesh, no injuries reported | Visakhapatnam News
VISAKHAPATNAM: Eight empty wagons of a goods train derailed in between the Sukku – Koraput section on the KK Line of the Waltair division. Accident Relief Trains from Koraput and Visakhapatnam proceeded to the site to organize restoration operations.
Due to the derailment of goods trains between the Sukku-Koraput section in the Kottavalasa- Kirandul line of the Waltair Division, many train services were affected.
The derailment took place on Friday morning and ADRM (Operations) Manoj Kumar Sahoo along with senior officials from Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Signal and Telecom, Commercial, Operating, and other officers from various departments rushed to the site. ADRM (Infra) Sudhir Kumar Gupta and other officers monitoring the restoration work from the control board at the DRM office.
Divisional Railway Manager Anup Satpathy is monitoring the restoration operations. The restoration works are being carried out on a war footing. After detaching the derailed coaches, the rare portion of the train was sent to its destination.
Train No.18513 Kirandul-Visakhapatnam Express leaving Kirandul and the train No. 18514 Visakhapatnam-Kirandul express leaving Visakhapatnam on Friday were canceled while a few trains including train No. 08551 Visakhapatnam-Kirandul special leaving Visakhapatnam on Friday will be short terminated at Paliba and will return back as 08552 from Paliba to Visakhapatnam.
The train No. 08552 Kirandul-Visakhapatnam special leaving Kirandul on Friday was short-terminated at Koraput and returned as 08551 from Koraput to Kirandul, the senior divisional commercial manager AK Tripathi.
Due to the derailment of goods trains between the Sukku-Koraput section in the Kottavalasa- Kirandul line of the Waltair Division, many train services were affected.
The derailment took place on Friday morning and ADRM (Operations) Manoj Kumar Sahoo along with senior officials from Civil Engineering, Mechanical, Signal and Telecom, Commercial, Operating, and other officers from various departments rushed to the site. ADRM (Infra) Sudhir Kumar Gupta and other officers monitoring the restoration work from the control board at the DRM office.
Divisional Railway Manager Anup Satpathy is monitoring the restoration operations. The restoration works are being carried out on a war footing. After detaching the derailed coaches, the rare portion of the train was sent to its destination.
Train No.18513 Kirandul-Visakhapatnam Express leaving Kirandul and the train No. 18514 Visakhapatnam-Kirandul express leaving Visakhapatnam on Friday were canceled while a few trains including train No. 08551 Visakhapatnam-Kirandul special leaving Visakhapatnam on Friday will be short terminated at Paliba and will return back as 08552 from Paliba to Visakhapatnam.
The train No. 08552 Kirandul-Visakhapatnam special leaving Kirandul on Friday was short-terminated at Koraput and returned as 08551 from Koraput to Kirandul, the senior divisional commercial manager AK Tripathi.
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