Automated Device Alert Prevents Train Accident in Uttar Pradesh

An automated track device in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur averted a train accident by warning of a hot wheel axle in a Seemanchal Express coach. The alert from the heat detection equipment led to swift action, detaching the coach and delaying the train by five hours.

An automated track device in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur prevented a potential train accident by alerting officials to a hot wheel axle in a Seemanchal Express coach. The alert was generated as the train crossed over heat detection equipment at the Chunar station.

According to North Central Railway Chief Public Relation Officer Shashi Kant Tripathi, the real-time alert from the hot axle box detector was sent when the train, traveling to Delhi from Jogbani in Bihar, was crossing the Chunar station around 10 am on Saturday. The detection of an unusually high temperature in the wheel axle of sleeper coach number S-3 prompted immediate action.

The train was halted at the next station, Jigna, where the affected coach was detached and passengers were relocated to other coaches. A new coach was attached when the train reached Prayagraj, resulting in a five-hour delay. Chand Mohammed, National Working President, All India Railway Track Maintainers Union, confirmed that the hot axle box detectors installed along railway tracks measure axle temperatures and provide timely alerts, enabling corrective measures.

(With inputs from agencies.)