{"id":647931,"date":"2025-09-26T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T04:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647931"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T06:13:02","slug":"outdated-signal-system-caused-secunderabad-shalimar-train-accident-in-2024-says-railway-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/outdated-signal-system-caused-secunderabad-shalimar-train-accident-in-2024-says-railway-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdated signal system caused Secunderabad-Shalimar train accident in 2024, says railway probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Secunderabad-Shalimar Weekly Superfast Express derailed at West Bengal&#8217;s Nalpur station in November 2024 due to a poorly maintained signal equipment that over three decade old and had outlived its life even at the time of commissioning in 1999, a railway probe has said. <\/p>\n<p>Soon after the incident, railway officials had called it an unprecedented, stating that when the train&#8217;s engine was moving on the main line and had just crossed a track changing point (Point no 26), a sudden command to the interlocking system diverted the coaches onto another line, leading to the derailment of three coaches. The incident didn&#8217;t cause any casualty or injuries to passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Secunderabad-Shalimar Weekly Superfast Express derailed at West Bengal&#8217;s Nalpur station in November 2024 due to a poorly maintained signal equipment that over three decade old and had outlived its life even at the time of commissioning in 1999, a railway probe has said. Soon after the incident, railway officials had called it an unprecedented, stating that when the train&#8217;s engine was moving on the main line and had just crossed a track changing point (Point no 26), a sudden command to the interlocking system diverted the coaches onto another line, leading to the derailment of three coaches. [&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":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647931","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=647931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}