The June 2 crash killed at least 288 people and injured more than 1,000. It was India's worst rail crash in two decades.
The Commission of Railway Safety investigators suspect the bypass was done by railway workers to get around signalling hurdles that arose from a malfunctioning barrier used to stop road traffic at a nearby rail-road intersection, two of the three sources said.The June 2 crash at Bahanaga Bazar station, in the Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha, killed at least 288 people and injured more than 1,000. It was India's worst rail crash in two decades.
A spokesman for Indian Railways said"repair works keep happening as per requirements" but tampering with the automated system is not allowed. He declined to elaborate further on the causes of the crash, saying:"the investigation is on". When there was a fault, the barrier would remain stuck in the closed position and had to be manually opened by railway workers, the residents said.
"The barrier would malfunction sometimes. People from the department would come and fix it," he said.One of the three Indian Railways sources - all of whom had knowledge of the ongoing CRS probe - said initial investigation suggests the automatic electronic signalling system was"changed manually, for which the software has to be tampered with".
The June 2 crash has raised questions about whether safety is getting enough attention. The government has said safety indicators have improved over the years, accident rates have fallen and safety is getting adequate funds. The CRS findings now suggest that the system, which Sinha said is supposed to be “fail-safe”, had been compromised by workers trying to find a workaround, the third Indian Railways source said.Sandeep Mathur, Indian Railways’ principal executive director for signalling, the top official responsible for signalling, did not respond to Reuters requests for information about the supplier of the interlocking system.
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