The Dehradun Varanasi Janata Express (train number 14266) derailed near Bachhrawan in Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, northern India, resulting in at least 58 deaths and 150 people being injured.
At 09:10 local time (03:40 UTC) on 20 March 2015,[1] a passenger train overshot a signal at Bachhrawan, Uttar Pradesh, India.
[citation needed] Photographs show that the carriage next to the locomotive was severely telescoped,[3] it was reported to have been packed with passengers.
[6] A team of doctors from the King George's Medical University in Lucknow was dispatched to the scene of the accident.
[7] Provisional findings of the Commission of Railway Safety discussed on a conference in October 2015 report a “discontinuity of brake pipe pressure between the train engine and the trailing load of passenger coaches caused by wrong position of additional cut out cock provided in the brake pipe of the locomotive which is not having the safety features specified in the design against inadvertent or unauthorized operation.”[8]