Because of the high impact speed, 21 coaches of the train were derailed from the main line. Īt about 19:00 IST (13:30 GMT), the Coromandel Express was supposed to continue straight on the up main line but was wrongly switched to the parallel up loop line at full speed, where it collided with a stationary goods train laden with iron ore. Both trains, not scheduled to stop at the railway station and having received a green signal indicating it was safe to proceed along the main line, were at their highest permitted speed of 128 km/h (80 mph). Around the same time, the Bengaluru–Howrah Express was travelling in the opposite direction from SMVT Bengaluru in Bangalore, Karnataka, to Howrah on the adjacent down main line. On 2 June 2023, the Coromandel Express was travelling from Shalimar in Howrah, West Bengal, to MGR Chennai Central in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on the up main line at the Bahanaga Bazar railway station. Simplified diagram of the 2023 Odisha train collision It was also the deadliest rail disaster worldwide since the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck. It was India's deadliest railway crash since the Firozabad rail collision in 1995, although the Gaisal train collision in 1999 may have killed more people. Due to the high speed of the Coromandel Express, its 21 coaches derailed and three of those collided with the oncoming 12864 SMVT Bengaluru–Howrah Superfast Express on the adjacent track.Ī total of 291 people were killed in the crash and 1,175 others were injured. The 12841 Coromandel Express entered the passing loop instead of the main line near Bahanaga Bazar railway station at full speed and collided with a goods train. On 2 June 2023, three trains collided in Balasore district, in the state of Odisha in eastern India.
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