Ahmedabad Times

Other than these, the Southern Railway additionally listed alternative of normal 2 kW coils by higher-capacity 3 kW heating coils, direct connection to fridge with non-standard jointing, unfastened jointing {of electrical} wires to facilitate shifting of hotplates from one pantry automobile to a different, plastic or inflammable materials on scorching boiler, inflammable packing materials obstructing Fireplace Detection and Suppression System (FDSS) and so on as lapses behind fireplace incidents in pantry automobiles.

Amongst different causes of fireside within the energy automobiles of the prepare are oil spillage on engine room flooring, non-functional FDSS smoke sensor in engine room, management panel doorways usually are not closing successfully and creating openings which will permit the entry of rodents, leakage of acid or different fluid from batteries, broken gentle fittings attributable to non-fixing of metallic grills in baggage room and so on, the Southern Railway stated.

It stated that the fireplace security drives will probably be undertaken collectively by the business and electrical engineering division and a report must be submitted to the board by June 20.

“Through the drive, all pantry automobiles must be checked by the proudly owning zones and stringent punitive motion have to be taken on discover of any such lapses. Corrective measures must also be put in place to rectify the lapses/shortcoming seen throughout the drive,” the board added.

The report has additionally recognized deficiencies associated to fireside extinguishers in prepare coaches, together with severely corroded extinguisher bottoms, bent discharge pipes, and stress gauges indicating the RED zone, which makes extinguishers unfit throughout fireplace incident use.

A large fireplace broke out in an AC coach of the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Categorical in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district on Might 17. All of the passengers have been evacuated safely and no harm or casualty was reported. A day later, a coach of an empty passenger prepare stationed at Bihar’s Sasaram Railway Station additionally caught fireplace.

The Southern Railway report additionally notes that the Analysis Designs and Requirements Organisation (RDSO) modified the specification of voice recitation announcement system for passengers after the run-over incident of Pushpak specific in January 2025. Nonetheless, it’s as per outdated specification in a lot of the coaches, besides for brand spanking new coaches.

Within the Pushpak specific incident, the passengers jumped off the prepare after hearsay of a hearth and at the least 13 folks have been run over by incoming Karnataka specific on adjoining observe.