A diesel engine toy train headed to Darjeeling derailed in Kurseong today, but no causalities were reported.
According to reports, the toy train derailed as soon as it left Kurseong Railway Station around 3:00pm in the evening. The two-compartment train was carrying a few passengers when the mishap occurred.
Eyewitnesses said the coach attached to the engine got derailed after one of the wheels on the right hand side slipped off the tracks. But despite the accident occurring at a busy section of town, neither was any traffic movement affected nor did anyone get injured.
Railways officials managed to get the train back on its tracks in a jiffy and have started repair works to the wooden sleepers.
DHR director M Bhutia said there was a minor derailment and such incidents on hilly tracks are common.
Source: EOI
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| Railway officials trying to get the derailed toy train back on track in Kurseong on Thursday. |
Eyewitnesses said the coach attached to the engine got derailed after one of the wheels on the right hand side slipped off the tracks. But despite the accident occurring at a busy section of town, neither was any traffic movement affected nor did anyone get injured.
Railways officials managed to get the train back on its tracks in a jiffy and have started repair works to the wooden sleepers.
DHR director M Bhutia said there was a minor derailment and such incidents on hilly tracks are common.
Source: EOI
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