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Blog Entry# 1586960
Posted: Sep 10 2015 (14:16)

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Sep 10 2015 (14:16)  
 
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Rafiganj train disaster of Kolkata Rajdhani
The Rafiganj rail disaster was the derailment of a train on a bridge over the Dhave River in North-Central India, on 10 September 2002. At least 130 people were killed in the accident, which was reportedly due to sabotage by a local Maoist terrorist group, the Naxalites.
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The accident occurred at 10:40 PM, when the Eastern Railway's
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high-speed, luxury Rajdhani Express train derailed on a 300-foot bridge over the Dhave River near the town of Rafiganj near Gaya. The train had left Howrah with over 1,000 people on board six hours before, and was heading towards New Delhi when the tragedy happened. Fifteen of the eighteen train cars derailed and fell across the tracks, two of them tumbling into the river beneath. People from other carriages were also thrown into the water by the force of the crash.
Rescuers, including local military forces, were hampered by the region's poor roads, which become muddy streams in rainstorms. This occurred the evening of the crash. Local people attempted to give what aid they could, and 125 people were pulled to safety by morning, but nothing could be done for those trapped in the carriages that had fallen into the swollen river.
The death toll continued to rise over the next weeks. The river was searched for bodies. Several were found near villages downstream. The full death toll is unlikely to ever be known. In all, 130 bodies were recovered, but some sources claim that as many as 50 people are still missing, although the government has not responded to this issue. Some news reports give the figure of those killed as high as 200. At least 150 people were injured.
The cause of the crash was not immediately obvious, but it was originally thought that rust and metal fatigue on the colonial era bridge contributed to a shift in the structure which cracked the rails, perhaps as a result of the heavy rains in the area. A railway employee commented that "The bridge was considered weak for a long time", but as in the Kadalundi River rail disaster of thirteen months previously, nothing was done to repair the structure.
A later enquiry reported the cause as sabotage, pointing to missing "fish plates" which were intended to anchor the rails to the bridge. These had apparently been removed at some point shortly before the crash. The investigators reported that the plates had probably been removed by Naxalites, who were conducting a low-intensity guerilla war at the time. The leaders of their organisation, the People's War Group had recently been arrested, and this was described as a being a revenge attack.
Other commentators have questioned this view, some claiming that fish plates were not missing at all, or that they were dislodged during the crash and fell into the river. Others assert that the fish plates may have been missing either through common theft for scrap metal or through the shifting of the weakened bridge shortly before the accident. The Naxalites themselves have not claimed credit for the "attack", and have never been known to target trains before.
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Sep 10 2015 (18:59)
FraudsterConman
FraudsterConman   7672 blog posts
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it was a naxal case, other wise how did 12301[2301/02 that time] crossed on 9th Sep safely. I travelled to Delhi for my operation onboard 2301 on 9th Sep 2002.
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Sep 10 2015 (19:54)
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Just 50 minutes before the Rajdhani Express crashed, Sealdah-Jammu Tawi Express had safely crossed the bridge. Then, 20 minutes later, a goods train crossed the bridge.Each fishplate has eight bolts-four bolts on each side. Each is the length of a fountain pen and is two inches thick. They are further fastened with helical pins called "jalebis". Using a heavy spanner, it would take at least 20 minutes to remove one fishplate, longer if the bolts were rusty.A 12.5 m rail block weighs 750 kg (each meter weighing 60 kg). It would require many men and much effort to loosen even one block from the track and remove it.In the past two decades, no extremist group operating in the area has ever attacked or derailed any passenger train.
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is growing evidence to show that key safety norms may have been compromised on the route that the 2301 had taken, especially on the bridge where the accident occurred.
The standard operating procedure followed by the railway demands that special checks be carried out on bridges in the rainy season between June and September and tracks inspected up to 50 m on either side.
"The monsoon inspection was not undertaken on many bridges here. Our staff has monitored the rise and fall of rain water only on a few bridges that are flood-prone," said K.K. Saxena, Mughalsarai's divisional railway manager.
That could have proved a costly mistake. The Kolkata-Mughalsarai section of the so-called Grand Chord route that connects it finally to Delhi is dotted with nullahs and rivers and has 740 bridges over which the Rajdhani rumbles every day. Bridge number 445, in railway terminology, over the Dhawa river, was constructed way back in 1916.

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Sep 10 2015 (20:29)
Railfan_bihari
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Before the recent kamayani and mumbai janta accident Pawan also passed from the same bridge 30 minutes earlier..
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Sep 10 2015 (20:33)guest
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Ye to koi reason nahi hua...Hwh rajdhani ka bad luck tha is liye iska accident hua ..
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Sep 10 2015 (21:05)
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@1586960-8  @guest
Simply reality ye hai ki,ye accident us time ka heavy weight tha,bo v legend rajdhani,railway stafs ko snap sungh gya hoga,bachne k liye naxal attack.uske baad he real me naxalis started attacking railway,due to statement made by railway officer uske phle nhi hua tha kvi
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