Jharkhand: Railway staff felicitated for preventing possible accident of Vande Bharat Express

JAMSHEDPUR: (Feb 6) The South Eastern Railway on Friday feliciated an employee for his alertness and prompt action that helped prevent a possible accident of the Howrah-Rourkela Vande Bharat Express.

While the train was passing through the Sonua–Tunia section of SER's Chakradhar division in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Thursday, pointsman Rajen Kachhap noticed smoke emanating from a coach because of a hot axle, a railway statement said.

Immediately, a coordinated action was taken by the on-duty staff and the divisional control and the train was stopped at Tunia station and the hot axle fire was extinguished, the statement added.