Intuition of Accidents in Indian Railway

Volume 7 Issue 2 March - May 2017

Research Paper

Intuition of Accidents in Indian Railway

Abhishek Srivastava*, Madan Chandra Maurya**

* PG Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India.

** Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India.

Srivastava, A., and Maurya, M,C. (2017). Intuition of Accidents in Indian Railway. i-manager’s Journal on Civil Engineering, 7(2), 7-14. https://doi.org/10.26634/jce.7.2.13420

Abstract

Indian railway is regarded as the “Imperia In Imperio”, an empire within an empire. Indian Railway (IR) not only connects one part of the nation with the other, but also has the symbiotic relationship with country's industry and economy. Accidents in railway are very disastrous as they led to huge loss of life as well as public money. The present work deals with the investigation of causes of frequent and repeated accidents in Indian Railway. Regarding collision and derailment, it is found that conjestion in traffic, lower maintenance work, and over work load on railway staff are the leading cause. Regarding level crossing accidents, it is found that large number of unmanned crossing, lower pace of conversion drive and construction of ROB/RUBs are the reasons behind the repeated occurance. Regarding fire accidents, the major causes are passenger and pantry car originated. Beside these causes, it is also found that under investment by railway and mis-management by railway authorities regarding implementation of the proposed plan also add up as a cause for these railway accidents.