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What Caused Tamil Nadu Train Accident? Railways Official Says..

New Delhi: 

The railway derailment in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvallur district – after a passenger train travelling at 75 km per hour rammed into a stationary goods train – was caused by a “mismatch between signal and route”, RN Singh, General Manager of Southern Railways, told NDTV Saturday morning.

The passenger train – the Mysuru-Darbhanga Bagmati Express – should have been switched to the main line but “something wrong happened”, Mr Singh said. The train was inadvertently switched to a closed section of the track on which the goods train was parked.

It is too early to say exactly what happened, Mr Singh said, noting that signal had been set for the main line while the track switched the train to the closed loop.

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