Two bogies of a holiday special Kalka Shimla train carrying some 30 passengers derailed and got stuck between a hill gully, killing one person on the spot and injuring three others on the UNESCO World Heritage Track between the two Himalayan cities at about 0830 hours on Sunday.
“The accident occurred at Sanawara, near Dharampur,” Jagdish Kanwar, station house officer Dharampur police station told reporters.
A Mohali resident, Surinder Singh, died on the spot after he was trapped between the bogey and the hillside on which the train rested after running off the track.
Preliminary investigations have pointed towards over-speeding as a possible reason behind the accident.
Railway authorities inquiring into the accident say a mechanical failure on century old track could not be ruled out at this stage.
Providing the passengers with the proverbial hair’s breadth for survival, the train go stuck in a hill gully which prevented it from rolling into the valley.
The Shimla-Kalka track laid out to military specifications began operations in November 1903 and was declared by UNESCO a world heritage track earlier this year.
“The accident occurred at Sanawara, near Dharampur,” Jagdish Kanwar, station house officer Dharampur police station told reporters.
A Mohali resident, Surinder Singh, died on the spot after he was trapped between the bogey and the hillside on which the train rested after running off the track.
Preliminary investigations have pointed towards over-speeding as a possible reason behind the accident.
Railway authorities inquiring into the accident say a mechanical failure on century old track could not be ruled out at this stage.
Providing the passengers with the proverbial hair’s breadth for survival, the train go stuck in a hill gully which prevented it from rolling into the valley.
The Shimla-Kalka track laid out to military specifications began operations in November 1903 and was declared by UNESCO a world heritage track earlier this year.
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