Goods train coaches run without engine in Jharkhand’s Sahibganj

Sahibganj: Pandemonium erupted at the Badharwa railway station in Sahibganj district of Jharkhand when a goods train and five coaches of a maintenance coach started running on the rail track without an engine. Fortunately, there was no other train on that track and the bogies that ran on the track could somehow be stopped before reaching the railway platform.
Vijay Kumar Sharma, a pointsman of the railway, stopped the carriages by blocking the track with gutka, otherwise a major accident could have happened. Badharwa Railway Station Manager Niranjan Kumar Bhagat said that it happened because of the slope. The case is being investigated.
It is being told that two wagons of the goods train were standing at the Badharwa rack loading point for the last 10-15 days. A maintenance coach with three bogies was also standing without an engine on the same railway track.
On Sunday evening, both the coaches of the goods train started rolling and collided with the maintenance coach. As a result, both the coaches of the maintenance coach and the freight train started running towards Badharwa railway station together. Seeing this, the people living near the railway track started making noise. The five bogies kept running for about three hundred meters.
In the meantime, points man Vijay Kumar Sharma of the railway blocked the track with a gutka, but the bogies were able to stop. The track on which the bogies were running passes through the railway gate. If they were not stopped in time, there could have been a huge loss of life and property at the gate.