A diesel goods train travelled nearly 80 km from Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua to a village in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district without its drivers on Sunday, news agency Press Trust of India reported, citing officials. No casualty or damage to property has been reported and an inquiry has been ordered into the incident that took place between on Sunday morning, between 7.25 am and 9 am.
The 53-wagon train loaded with chip stones was on its way to Punjab from Jammu, the officials said. The train had stopped at the Kathua railway station in Jammu for a driver change and it seems that it began to roll down a slope gradient track on the Jammu-Jalandhar section, a spokesperson of the Northern Railway said, citing preliminary information.
