Ajaraka railway accident
The Ajaraka railway accident , a derailment , was caused by the attack on a railway line southwest of New Delhi on November 23, 1977. 20 people died.
Starting position
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Night train No. 2 was en route from Ahmedabad to New Delhi. It was pulled by the YDM-4 6402 locomotive and some of its cars were older and still had wooden superstructures.
The route Bandikui - Rewari was meter gauge .
the accident
Before the train passed what would later be the scene of the accident, an 11.9 m long section of track was removed from the line between the Ajaraka and Bawal stations . The screws were loosened and the track section pushed out. When train number 2 passed the place, the locomotive and 10 cars derailed. The derailed wagons with wooden superstructures were smashed in the accident .
consequences
20 people died and another 21 were injured. The perpetrator or perpetrators could never be identified. Despite the present accident report, due to the generally desolate situation of Indian Railways , whose accidents are often attributed to external causes by politicians, doubts arose in retrospect as to whether it was actually an attack or whether it was material fatigue that led to the accident.
literature
- Shri PMN Murthy: On the Derailment of No. 2 Down Ahmedabad – New Delhi Mail at km 18 / 6.2 Between Ajarka and Bawal Stations on the Bandikui – Rewari Single Meter Gauge Section of Western Railway at about 5.18 Hours on 23 November 1977 - Report [excerpt]. In: Virendra Kumar: Committees and Commissions in India: 1947-73 . Volume 15, pp. 1200-1205.
- Soroor Ahmed: Talk not about derailment of just one train, but of Indian Railways itself .
Web links
- NN: 20 killed in train crash . In: Reading Eagle v. November 24, 1977, p. 27.
- NN: Deliberate derailment kills 20 . In: Cedar Rapids Gazette v. November 23, 1977, p. 16.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 28 ° 2 ′ 5.2 " N , 76 ° 33 ′ 42.8" E