After Cattle Hits On Mumbai-Gandhinagar, Varanasi Vande Bharat Express Suffers Jammed Wheel

Passengers onboard a Vande Bharat Express enroute to Varanasi from New Delhi were shifted to a Shatabdi express rake after one of the wheels of the train got jammed at Wair Railway station in Bulandshahr on Saturday.

"Varanasi Vande Bharat rake has suffered a failure due to a bearing defect in the Traction Motor of C8 coach between the Dankaur and Wair stations of North Central Railway. The bearing jam was rectified with the assistance of NCR team," the Indian Railways said in a statement.

Varanasi Vande Bharat rake has suffered a failure due to a bearing defect in the Traction Motor of C8 coach between the Dankaur and Wair stations of North Central Railway. The bearing jam was rectified with the assistance of NCR team: Indian Railways pic.twitter.com/STOUgAYbET

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Passengers shifted to Shatabdi express rake

"However, due to the development of a flat tyre of 80 mm, the train has been moved at a restricted speed of 20 kmph up to Khurja," it added.

The Vande Bharat express (Train no. 22436) had a total of 1,068 passengers onboard.

#abpnews Vande Bharat on 8th Oct 22 to Varanasi, E3 coach wheels caught fire, we are at wair station. Now it's going khurja there all passengers will be taken to another train #aajtak #Zeenews #Zeenews #aajtak #abpnews pic.twitter.com/fr9phQa3LL

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Third mishap in three days

This is the third incident involving a Vande Bharat train in as many days.

The newly launched Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express had made headlines on Thursday and Friday over cattle hits.

On Thursday, the engine of a Vande Bharat Express was left damaged after it collided with a herd of buffaloes between Vatva station to Maninagar station.

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"Three to four buffaloes suddenly came on the way of the Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat, damaging the nose made up of FRP (fibre-reinforced plastic). The train left for Gandhinagar just after removing carcasses (within eight minutes)," a railway official said.

The nose cover is designed to absorb the impact without transmitting the same to the functional parts of the train. Therefore, it is sacrificial by design and hence replaceable.

Vande Bharat Express hits cow

On Friday, the Vande Bharat Express hit a cow near Anand station in Gujarat, resulting in minor damage to the train's nose panel.

The railway official said the train did not sustain major damage in the latest incident except a small dent on the nose cone panel.

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FIR against buffalo owners

On Friday the Railway Protection Force (RPF) registered a case against the owners of buffaloes that were hit by the Vande Bharat express on Thursday.

"The RPF has lodged a first information report (FIR) against the unidentified owners of the buffaloes that came in the way of Vande Bharat train between Vatva and Maninagar railway stations in Ahmedabad," WR's senior spokesperson (Ahmedabad division) Jitendra Kumar Jayant said.

RPF inspector Pradeep Sharma posted at Vatva railway station said the FIR was filed under section 147 of the Railways Act, 1989, which deals with unauthorised entry into any part of a railway and misuse of its property.

The railway police have not yet been able to identify the owners of the buffaloes so far and efforts are on to do so, he said.

Minister acknowledges cattle problem

Later in the day Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav acknowledged the problems of cattle crossing the tracks.

"All railway tracks in the country are still on the ground, on the surface. The problem of cattle thus persists. However, trains are being designed to tackle such issues," Vaishnav said.

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