NEW DELHI: An official probe into India's rail crash is focusing on suspected manual bypassing of an automated signalling system that guides train movement - an action investigators believe sent a packed express train into a stationary freight train, three Indian Railways sources told Reuters. The Commissi
NEW DELHI: An official probe into India's rail crash is focusing on suspected manual bypassing of an automated signalling system that guides train movement - an action investigators believe sent a packed express train into a stationary freight train, three Indian Railways sources told Reuters.
A spokesman for Indian Railways said"repair works keep happening as per requirements" but tampering with the automated system is not allowed.Amitabh Sharma, chief information officer at the Railways Ministry, said the cause of the accident was still under investigation. When there was a fault, the barrier would remain stuck in the closed position and had to be manually opened by railway workers, the residents said.
"The barrier would malfunction sometimes. People from the department would come and fix it," he said.One of the three Indian Railways sources - all of whom had knowledge of the ongoing CRS probe - said initial investigation suggests the automatic electronic signalling system was"changed manually, for which the software has to be tampered with".
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