India, Aug. 22 -- Less than 48 hours after 1,148 passengers had to be rescued when two overcrowded monorail trains came to a halt on elevated tracks between stations on a day of torrential rain, another train got overloaded on Thursday morning. This time, however, the pilot immediately flagged the overloading when the train was at the Acharya Atre station. The authorities had to then only get 50 passengers to deboard at the station to keep the rail network operational.

The incident occurred during the morning rush hour at 9.24 am, when the monorail train heading towards Sant Ghadge Maharaj Chowk (Jacob Circle) entered Acharya Atre Station, officials said. Once passengers deboarded and boarded, the pilot's dashboard flashed the train's we...