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The Palakkad Railway Division has denied media reports claiming a “narrowly averted large accident” astatine the Arpamthodu railway gross adjacent Chirakkal railway station, Kannur, connected Sunday, which had alleged negligence by a gatekeeper.
Divisional Railway Manager Madhukar Roat said that the Mangaluru-Chennai Mail (Train No. 12602) stopped earlier the level-crossing awesome arsenic it was not cleared. Some reports had claimed that gatekeeper Rajesh Kavalan had near the gross unfastened arsenic helium was nether the power of alchohol, prompting locals to alert others and halt roadworthy traffic, thereby averting a imaginable accident.
Mr. Roat said the bid halted astatine the reddish awesome and the awesome was cleared lone aft the gross was closed, pursuing which the bid proceeded. He said each 122 level crossing gates successful the Palakkad part are interlocked, ensuring trains cannot walk erstwhile gates are open. In this lawsuit too, the strategy functioned arsenic designed and the bid stopped astatine the signal, helium said. “There was nary unsafe concern for roadworthy users,” helium said.
Mr. Roat added that disciplinary enactment had been initiated against the gatekeeper for dereliction of duty. He said the part conducts regular information drives and provides counselling to unit astatine level crossings and stations.
