People near the site where two goods trains collided head-on in an NTPC-operated private line connecting between Kahalgaon and Farakka Thermal Power Plants
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Two persons were killed and four others injured in a collision between two goods trains in Jharkhand’s Sahebganj district in the early hours of Tuesday (April 1, 2025), police said.
Two goods train collided head-on at about 3.00 am in NTPC operated private line. The line was owned and run by NTPC on a track connecting between Kahalgaon and Farakka Thermal Power Plants.
The track is popularly known as NTPC Lalmatia MGR and the operation of which is not related to Indian Railways.
Hence, there is no involvement of Indian Railways in this incident. The entire operation of MGR line, locos, crew, maintenance, signalling etc belongs to NTPC.
More details of the accident will be communicted when collected from NTPC authorities.
However, NTPC have sought help from Malda Division and requested for 140 tonne crane from Malda Division of Eastern Railway and it has been arranged from Sahibgganj, sources said.
“The drivers of both the goods trains were killed in the head-on collision,” Sub-Divisional Police Officer of Sahebganj Kishore Tirkey said..
Eastern Railway spokesperson Kausik Mitra said, “The goods trains and the track both belong to the NTPC. It has nothing to do with the Indian Railways.” The line on which the accident happened connects NTPC’s Kahalgaon Super Thermal Power Station in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district to the Farakka Power Plant in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
(With inputs from PTI)
Published – April 01, 2025 10:00 am IST