The Bengaluru-bound AC double-decker express train from Chennai derailed around 100 km away from Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna Bengaluru City Junction, affecting train operations on the line on Monday.
Train number 22625 from Dr MGR Chennai Central to KSR Bengaluru was due to reach the city junction at 1.15 pm. Around 11.30 am, a pair of wheels and an axle of the second-last coach derailed at Bisanattam station, about 20 kilometres from Bangarapet, Kusuma Hariprasad, Additional Divisional Railway Manager, Bangalore Division, South Western Railway, told DH.
