Rourkela, Jan 25: Regarding the detachment incident of the engine from the train here, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) will be initiating stringent action against the erring employees for faulty connection of diesel engine with the bogies of Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar Super Fast Weekly Express. It informed this to the South Eastern Railway (SER). The I&PR department of ECoR stated in a release that the engine got detached due to faulty connection with the bogies. it was stated in the release that the electric locomotive of the train was replaced with diesel locomotive at Rourkela Railway station but the diesel locomotive was not properly connected to the bogies as a result of which it got detached.
Notably, yesterday afternoon, the passengers of Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar Super Fast Weekly Express train panicked as they had to be stranded midway after the engine of the train got detached from the bogies. The incident had happened when the engine accidentally got detached from the bogies near Birajapalli about 10-15 minutes after leaving Rourkela Railway Station. However, the driver came to know about the incident after he found the bogies missing and drove the engine back about 2 kms. The senior Railway officials immediately rushed to the spot on getting the information. The Train was later taken back to Rourkela from where it begun its journey for New Delhi all over again after the change of another engine.
