Train ran for 15Km without Engine

[piinku1]

Why this types of incidents happening because of employees mistakes but if train not stop automatically then it will going to be a big accident, railway administration should be increase security to not happen this types of incidents again..

This is only happening because strong action hasn't been taken against the careless staffs in the past.

 

[Sarkar]

This is only happening because strong action hasn't been taken against the careless staffs in the past.

There is union power backed by political parties and mostly because there is no transfer outside their Zone/division, And those careless staffs are mostly associated with union leadership or very close to the leadership so very hard to crack. If you take action they will call strike

 

[mmadhankumar]

Pulling the chain just releases the brake pressure and causes discontinuity in the brake pipes. It wouldn't stop train instantly.

In an normal scenario two things might happen. Either the loco pilot upon seeing the discontinuity in brake, would apply the brake immediately and stops the train or the brake pressure keeps lowering and when the pressure notch in the master controller in the engine goes below threshold, an auto brake is applied bringing the train to an halt. Otherwise the train would take a long time to decrease the speed on its own after pulling the chain.

But in this incident, both option was not possible. Also the train was running on down gradient which would have impacted the chain pull.