Ranchi, Oct. 20: A Rajdhani train made an unscheduled stop at Muri, 60km from here, this morning apparently to allow on board a passenger who, insiders...
Trains do make unscheduled stoppages to carry railway men on duty, or medical emergency of bonafide passenger which is justified. But diverting a premium Rajdhani Express (monitored by RB) to a slower track in order to facilitate unscheduled stoppage and giving the unscheduled stoppage for relative of Rly official is something unthinkable. This act shall delay the train and consume more sectional capacity. If this is done by divisional level officials, then what is the authority of RB?
Someone insider tried to level some score with SDOM otherwise stoppage of any train at any station is daily affair. This Indian Railway where even a SF train stops at Halt.
Maybe. But that's no excuse to stop any train for someone's kith and kin to board or alight. - Imagine the hullabaloo if this had been done by some politician. Bureaucracy gets away with anything.
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