Signalling error may be cause of deadly India train crash
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.4 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. |
| 0:06.7 | This edition is published in the early hours of Sunday, the 4th of June. |
| 0:10.1 | Officials in India are examining whether a signalling error |
| 0:13.0 | led to the train crash which killed 288 people. |
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| 0:28.5 | Also in the podcast, it got off to a very fast start, |
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| 0:36.9 | And... |
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| 0:42.6 | Afer beats, taking the world by storm. |
| 0:53.0 | The crash involving three trains in eastern India on Friday evening |
| 1:00.0 | is now officially the third most deadly on India's railways with 288 dead. |
| 1:07.0 | preliminary investigation suggests an error with signalling may have been to blame. |
| 1:12.0 | An enquiry is looking into a theory that an express train was diverted onto a loop line |
| 1:17.0 | where it smashed into a stationary goods train. |
| 1:20.0 | The carriage is derailed and were then hit by a second passenger train. |
| 1:25.0 | One survivor described the scene as a bloodbath on the tracks. |
| 1:29.0 | Among the many people caught up in it were two brothers. |
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