Tuesday, December 21 2004 13:04 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Patna: A disaster was averted with an alert signalman stopping Guwahati-New Delhi Rajdhani Express from moving through a wrong track on which a goods train was parked near Tilrath station in Begusarai-Barauni section in Bihar, East Central Railway sources said today (Dec 21, 2004).

The sources said in Patna that as work was on to repair the signalling system at the outer cabin of the station, the Rajdhani Express, piloted by a signalman from the cabin to the station moved in to the wrong track where the goods train was already parked at Tilrath station last evening (Dec 20, 2004).

The signalman soon noticed it and raised an alarm. The driver stopped the train immediately.

The stationmaster and a pointsman of Tilrath station were suspended in this connection.

Railway authorities have ordered a high-level inquiry into it.

On December 14, 37 people were killed and 50 injured when Ahmedabad-bound Jammu Tawi Express collided head on with a local train at Mukerian in Punjab.