Bhopal Shatabdi: chalti hai ek dum hawa ke mafik, speed aisi ke ruka de traffic - Varun

Yeah, you're absolutely right. If there was no freight, then there wouldn't have been any casualty on both sides during derailment. For example, a couple of years back, there was an accident involving Poorva express near Kanpur. It was also running at a speed of around 124kmph when it derailed, but luckily it happened outside the station limits and no other train was crossing at that time. Also, because there was no freight train, there were no casualties and the injuries were also less. The same thing could have happened with Coromandel Express if there was no freight train and it had almost crossed SVT HWH. In that case, casualties wouldn't have happened, only some passengers would have been injured.