Four coaches of the Chauri Chaura Express derailed while the train was departing from Kanpur Central railway station in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday evening.
No passengers were injured in the incident, railway officials said.
The NFR launched relief and rescue operations immediately after the accident. The derailment comes hours after another train accident in Assam, where six passenger coaches and the locomotive of the Kolkata-Sairang Express derailed at Digaru railway station on the outskirts of Guwahati early Wednesday morning. A special train was arranged to transport stranded passengers to their destinations, with food and drinking water also provided. A recovery train was sent to the site to assist with restoration work.
The incident occurred around 6:54 am when the train, travelling from Kolkata to Sairang in Mizoram, was entering Digaru station to give precedence to another train.
The locomotive pilot could not control the train’s speed, resulting in the derailment of the locomotive and five passenger coaches, according to the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR).
