A preliminary investigation by a multi-disciplinary team of railway officials has indicated that a signalling failure may have been a cause of Friday’s three-train collision in Odisha’s Balasore district.
The preliminary probe report, a copy of which is available with The Hindu, says that the Coromandel Express was initially given the green signal to enter the Up Main Line, but the signal was then taken off. The train then entered the loop line instead, and collided with a goods train there, triggering the multi-train collision.
