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People inspect the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023.
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THE RMT union has issued a warning over rail safety as a signalling fault was blamed for the India train disaster that killed at least 275 people.
India’s rail minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said today that an error in “electronic interlocking” sent the Coromandel Express passenger train on to the wrong tracks, where it collided with a freight train at 80mph.
A third passenger train was also derailed in the accident in Odisha, eastern India, on Friday. The cause remains under investigation.
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
Our members face daily abuse, being spat at, sometimes even deadly assaults, and employers fail to take the issue seriously despite the increasing danger, writes RMT general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY