Joint Zonal Convention of AILRSA NWR, WR, WCR at Railway Institute ABU ROAD on 27.07.11 from 10 hours. Com. MN Prasad, Secretary General AILRSA ,Lunaram Siyag, BL Srivathava, Ashok Mallik,Dayal Singh, BL Meena, KK Meena ...will address.
PATNA: The tragic accident of Howrah-Kalka Mail near Kanpur on Sunday in which 69 passengers were killed has made the railways to ponder over its safety measures.
This Association conducted its Zonal meeting at Hotel Arun,Trichy on 11-07-2011.The meeting condoled the demise of passengers in Kalka Mail accident at Malwan station on 10-07-2011. In the media reports it appears that the cause of the accident is application of emergency brake by the Driver(Loco Pilot). This Union represents the Loco Pilots and Assistant Loco Pilots of Indian Railways wishes to clarify as follows.
Hundreds of passengers on board the Chennai Express, which was leaving the City Railway Station for Chennai, had a miraculous escape on early Thursday morning when the driver of the train noticed a fracture on the rail. Within seconds, the driver braked and halted the train.