Goods Train Runs 70 Km Without Driver In Punjab, Causes Scare

A freight train travelled over 70 kilometres from Kathua station in Jammu and Kashmir to a village in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district without its drivers on Sunday. The diesel locomotive-hauled goods train gained a speed of nearly 100 km/hr along the way before it was finally stopped near Unchi Bassi railway station in Punjab with the assistance of sandbags.

The 53-wagon train was loaded with chip stones and was on its way to Punjab from Jammu. A video of the train has surfaced on the internet showing it passing by a station at a very high speed.

The train had stopped at the Kathua railway station in Jammu for a driver change and it seems that it began to roll down a slope gradient track on the Jammu-Jalandhar section, a spokesperson of the Northern Railway said, citing preliminary information.