Goods Train at Kathua runs without Driver for over 80 Km to Punjab without drivers
Jammu Tawi, Feb. 26 -- A53-WagonGoods trainrun more than 80 kilometres from Kathua to a village Unnchi Bassi in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district without its drivers on Sunday, officials said.
No casualty or damage to property has been reported, they said and added that an inquiry has been ordered into the incident that took place between 7.25 am and 9 am in the morning.
The 53-wagon train loaded with chip stones was on its way to Punjab from Jammu, the officials said.
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.
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