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As devastated farmers begin to come to terms with the fallout, 4 lakh hectares of land under paddy cultivation across state is flooded. Punjab is among the biggest contributors to PDS.
New Delhi: Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi has strongly backed the idea of theaterisation, saying it is inevitable and the need of the hour.
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In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
After reading in this article that the DMU was travelling at 91km/hr, I got curious and searched for info on Rajdhani Express speeds. This is what I got:
“…average speed of Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains is less than 90 km/hr due to many speed restrictions and poor acceleration and deceleration characteristics of existing loco hauled trains…”
In another comment on a related article in THE PRINT I had mentioned that I have personal experience of traveling on a Punjab DMU and I remember it stopped every 5-6 minutes and never really picked up a “galloping” speed.
I find strange the above claim that the DMU was travelling at 91kmph and slowed to 68 kmph when the driver applied the brakes. These transports have stations at short distances. How far was the previous station of this DMU and how far was the next? Could it be feasible to accelerate it to such speed and yet be able to decelerate it in good time? Since all along the tracks of these DMUs in Punjab there are houses only a short distance away, ARE THEY ALLOWED to notch up such high speeds of 91kmph? Having experienced a Punjab DMU travel FIRST HAND, I find all these claims very fishy. “There is more to it than meets the eye”, that’s all I can say. They must investigate the sabotage angle.
This seems like indecent haste. Sixty people have died. Many things must have gone wrong, telescoped into each other to create this tragedy. Someone has tweeted that the main light of the engine was not working. That would have lit up the track for the engine driver and made people who were in its path aware of the approaching danger.
Ministry of Civil Aviation? Am I awake?
After reading in this article that the DMU was travelling at 91km/hr, I got curious and searched for info on Rajdhani Express speeds. This is what I got:
“…average speed of Rajdhani/Shatabdi trains is less than 90 km/hr due to many speed restrictions and poor acceleration and deceleration characteristics of existing loco hauled trains…”
In another comment on a related article in THE PRINT I had mentioned that I have personal experience of traveling on a Punjab DMU and I remember it stopped every 5-6 minutes and never really picked up a “galloping” speed.
I find strange the above claim that the DMU was travelling at 91kmph and slowed to 68 kmph when the driver applied the brakes. These transports have stations at short distances. How far was the previous station of this DMU and how far was the next? Could it be feasible to accelerate it to such speed and yet be able to decelerate it in good time? Since all along the tracks of these DMUs in Punjab there are houses only a short distance away, ARE THEY ALLOWED to notch up such high speeds of 91kmph? Having experienced a Punjab DMU travel FIRST HAND, I find all these claims very fishy. “There is more to it than meets the eye”, that’s all I can say. They must investigate the sabotage angle.
This seems like indecent haste. Sixty people have died. Many things must have gone wrong, telescoped into each other to create this tragedy. Someone has tweeted that the main light of the engine was not working. That would have lit up the track for the engine driver and made people who were in its path aware of the approaching danger.