PATNA: Alertness of a trackman averted a major accident and saved lives of hundreds of passengers travelling by the Muzaffarpur-Patliputra MEMU train (05353), when he detected a rail fracture between Turki and Ramdayalu Nagar section on Muzaffarpur-Hajipur route in the Sonepur division of the East Central Railway (ECR), on Sunday morning.
The train was detained for more than two hours from 8.25am to 10.30am for repairing of the tracks, and then it carried on its onward journey towards Patliputra junction.