Ranikhet Express - रेगिस्तान में हरियाली

* Had train movement permitted with broken check rails, the instruction to move at lower speed say 5/10kmph would have been there in the standard operating practices, and the LP would not have insisted for written order to run the train at 5kmph over the affected area. Is IR experimenting with a prohibited practice, which ultimately lead to derailment of the fifth train after first 4 trains passed over??? This is pretty serious.
* Root cause of these accidents is the past practice of IR/RMs to flag off new trains in large numbers without augmenting the track (mostly for political gains) which has resulted in very high traffic (170% of rated capacity) and no scope to manage any breakdown. IR management is...
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forced to clear the traffic in caution but unsafe way and accidents happen. To ask resignation of current RM would be penalising him for the mistakes of hid predecessors. Mr. Prabhu who took a large number of steps to help improve the situation including accelerated doubling, fell prey to our illogical ritual of "moral responsibility" to be owned by RM.