The Western Railways is planning to install fences along the Gandhinagar-Mumbai route, after the newly-launched Vande Bharat Express train suffered minor damages by colliding with cattle on the railway line for two days in a row, officials said on Friday.
While the semi-high speed train hit some buffaloes between Gairatpur and Vatva stations in Gujarat on Thursday, it hit a cow near the state’s Anand station on Friday.
Railways minister Ashwini Vaishnaw acknowledged the problem of cattle crossing the tracks and told reporters that such collisions were kept in mind while designing the train for minimum impact.
