{"id":647970,"date":"2025-09-26T11:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647970"},"modified":"2025-09-26T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:32:29","slug":"outdated-signal-poor-upkeep-caused-secunderabad-shalimar-express-derailment-in-2024-probe-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/outdated-signal-poor-upkeep-caused-secunderabad-shalimar-express-derailment-in-2024-probe-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdated signal, poor upkeep caused Secunderabad\u2013Shalimar Express derailment in 2024, probe finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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>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. The incident [&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":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647970","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=647970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}