A cement slipper was found with cracks and a pandrol-clip which keeps the former attached to rails was missing from the down track of Malda-Calcutta route on Tuesday afternoon.
An inspection team of the Government Railway Police noticed the problem at Malanchapally in Englishbazar and cordoned off the area before informing the Malda division of the Eastern Railway.
Railway engineers soon arrived and replaced the broken slipper with a new one. A new pandrol-clip was also fixed to the slipper and the rail. “Train services were not hit. The defects were mended on war-footing,” said a railway official.
