Hyderabad, September 22: Train passengers had an astonishing experience as the train in which they were traveling had traveled 980 kilometers in wrong direction. As the train pulled into Warangal city people on board went berserk as they realised they were five hours away from where they should have been. After that the rail passengers stormed a station office in protest.
According to details the train departed from Tirupati heading for the eastern city of Bhubaneswar. It was when it arrived at an interchange at Vijayawada it went wrong, as it was due to swing north to Varanasi. After five hours the passengers realized that the train is going in wrong direction.
It has been told that India’s signaling system is run on codes but instead of entering the three-letters for its next intended stop Bhubaneswar (BBS) staff put in the code for Bilaspur (BSP) sending the train in completely the wrong direction.
Experts have held the driver responsible for the mistake but they also expressed surprise that the train did not crash as it went for 600 miles on the completely wrong track.
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