ENQUIRY INTO GOKUL EXPRESS DERAILMENT INCONCLUSIVE

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The Commissioner of Railway Safety, North Eastern Circle, Shri Bhupender Singh, in a statutory enquiry into the derailment of 5316 Down Gokul Express, an eleven-coach vacuum braked train between Raya and Sonai Railway stations, falling in district Mathura of Uttar Pradesh, metre gauge single line section, non-electrified, Q route of Izzatnagar Division of North Eastern Railway at 18.06 Hours on June 13, 2003, has expressed his inability in his provisional findings to come to any conclusion.

The preliminary inquiry remains inconclusive till such time the Driver and the Diesel Assistant recover to give their evidence, capsized and derailed locomotive and three affected coaches are brought to their respective workshops for detailed check and the 3.1 degree curve on which the derailment took place is repaired to the speed potential of the maximum sanctioned speed in order to conduct certain trials.

As a result of the accident, no train passenger was killed, ten passengers were injured out of which seven were grievously injured and three received simple injury.