Odisha 3-train accident: A ‘delayed’ twist of terrible fate

Fate appears to have conspired in Friday’s disaster. A little after 6. 50pm on Friday, Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express should have passed the stationary goods train in the loop line to its left. But a route relay interlocking system error that controls the changing of tracks meant that Coromandel did not switch to the second track at the interchange before the accident point but hurtled on and rammed into the freight train at express speed.

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