The disaster has been blamed on a signalling failure that caused a train to drive into another and then flip onto a separate set of rails.
Rail services have resumed over a stretch of the railway network in eastern India where a train crash killed 275 people - as an investigation into the disaster began.
Around 1,200 people were also injured in Friday's rail crash - India's worst for more than two decades,Video footage on Monday showed a train passing slowly past the crash site - near the district of Balasore, in the eastern state of Odisha - while the repair work continued at the side of the tracks.'There are body bags everywhere you look'
Meanwhile, railway officials and witnesses gathered to submit evidence to a two-day inquiry into what happened. Jaya Varma Sinha, a senior railway official, said a preliminary investigation found a signal was given to the high-speed Coromandel Express to run on the main track - but the signal later changed.The train instead entered an adjacent loop line - a side track used for parking - where it rammed into a freight train loaded with iron ore.
The collision flipped the Coromandel coaches on to another track, causing the incoming Yesvantpur-Howrah Express from the opposite side to also derail, she said.
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