This story is from February 25, 2019

Vande Bharat Express hit by stones near Auraiya station in UP

Vande Bharat Express hit by stones near Auraiya station in UP
Vande Bharat Express
AGRA: The Vande Bharat Express, India’s fastest train, was damaged after flying ballast hit the driver’s screen and some coach windows while it was travelling from Varanasi to New Delhi at about 7:45pm on Saturday.
The incident occurred near Achalda station of Auraiya district in Uttar Pradesh, when the Dibrugarh Rajdhani Express, which was passing on an adjacent track, hit and ran over cattle.

“A shower of ballast hit Vande Bharat’s driver’s windscreen and the outer glass on windows of coach numbers C4, C6, C7, C8, C13 as well as two glass panes of coach no. C12, causing some damage,” said North Central Railway chief public relations officer Gaurav Krishan Bansal. Some of the debris was also parts of the cattle carcass, said officials.
“It’s very rare to see cattle carcass hitting another train on an adjoining line,” Bansal added. At the time of the incident, Dibrugarh Rajdhani was cruising at 90kmph, while Vande Bharat was travelling at 116 kmph. After the incident, Vande Bharat continued its journey with the broken windowpanes, while the Rajdhani halted for 11 minutes before leaving for Kanpur. On Sunday morning, Vande Bharat left New Delhi for Varanasi at its scheduled time.
The train had started commercial operations on February 17. Earlier on February 20, a stone was hurled at Vande Bharat, damaging the windowpane of C2 coach while the train was heading for Varanasi. On its return journey to Delhi, the train ran over a bull between Bharthana and Ekdil stations of Etawah district. Earlier this month, miscreants had pelted stones at the train near Sadar area in Delhi while it was on its way to New Delhi station to begin a trial run to Prayagraj. A window of a coach was damaged in that incident. On December 20, 2018, during the last leg of the final trial run on the stretch between Delhi and Agra stations, miscreants had pelted stones at the train in Mathura, breaking a windowpane.
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