{"id":586973,"date":"2023-06-26T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T04:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=586973"},"modified":"2023-06-26T11:30:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T06:00:30","slug":"train-comes-to-a-halt-after-hitting-concrete-slab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/train-comes-to-a-halt-after-hitting-concrete-slab\/","title":{"rendered":"Train comes to a halt after hitting concrete slab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The Chennai-bound Kaveri Express came to a stop on Sunday when it collided with a concrete slab allegedly placed by a mentally challenged person on the railway tracks near Ambur in Tirupattur district. <\/p>\n<p>According to preliminary investigations, police said, a mentally unstable person placed the concrete slab around 1am on Sunday and has since been taken into custody. Sources said that after passing Ambur station the Kaveri Express encountered a concrete slab on the tracks. The impact dislodged the slab, causing a loud noise that prompted the loco pilot to apply brakes and stop it at Pachakuppam station, near Ambur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chennai: The Chennai-bound Kaveri Express came to a stop on Sunday when it collided with a concrete slab allegedly placed by a mentally challenged person on the railway tracks near Ambur in Tirupattur district. According to preliminary investigations, police said, a mentally unstable person placed the concrete slab around 1am on Sunday and has since been taken into custody. Sources said that after passing Ambur station the Kaveri Express encountered a concrete slab on the tracks. The impact dislodged the slab, causing a loud noise that prompted the loco pilot to apply brakes and stop it at Pachakuppam station, near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}