Udaipur-Jaipur Vande Bharat Makes Emergency Stop As Loco Pilot Notices Stones On Track; Accident Averted

The locomotive pilots of the Udaipur-Jaipur Vande Bharat Express helped prevent an accident on Monday after identifying stones and other impediments on the tracks.

The locomotive pilots activated the emergency brakes.

A video circulated on social media shows stones and two one-foot rods inserted in the track's joggle plate in the Gangarar-Soniyana segment.

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The incident took place at about 9:55 AM, and the Railway Police and local authorities are investigating.

This could have been disastrous !!
Well Planned Derailment of Udaipur - Jaipur Vande Bharat Express near Bhilwara.

When hate towards a particular political party changes into hate towards nation this is the result, God bless people with such mentality#VandeBharatExpress pic.twitter.com/NzkOCtJNNu

— Saurabh • A Railfan 🇮🇳 (@trains_of_india) October 2, 2023

The Udaipur-Jaipur Vande Bharat Express leaves Udaipur city at 7:50 AM and arrives in Jaipur at 14:05 PM. It runs six days a week, excluding Tuesdays.

Stone pelting on trains is not uncommon but this was the first incident of a Vande Bharat train being targeted in the state.

Earlier in July, a man and his two sons hurled stones at a Vande Bharat train running from Gorakhpur to Lucknow, smashing its window panes.

The accused told police that they threw stones at the train as it ran near Ayodhya's Sohawal station.