Railway Accidents
It is truly impressive that normally quiet respected friends of mine are stirred to come out with their thoughts recently in mails to me. For a railway man an accident and determination of cause never ceases to provoke and invariably the battle lines are drawn department wise. Rarely truth is revealed. The technical fights are taken to the hollowed grounds of RDSO too, which is supposed to be a technical body, but there too, the same field attitudes prevail. Logical updating of Criteria for evaluating safety of track-vehicle interaction and safety certification process by RDSO for a new rolling stock got never done. The case of CRT wagon which got introduced despite poor oscillation trial results, one cannot forget. The way track engineers too fight not to budge from their poor track standards in earlier years, forced Tandon to introduce BOX-N, to"destroy" tracks, which he told me, with a wink at that time. Then track engineers went about introducing 90UTS rails. Confrontatio...