The loco pilot of a items practice utilized emergency brakes and prevented a collision with an Asiatic lion that was strolling close to the railway monitor close to Pipavav port of Rajula in Amreli district on , railway officers stated. It was the 14th such occasion of prevention of lion-train collision up to now two months.
“On June 9, loco pilot Sabbirkhan H. Pathan, whereas engaged on items practice quantity PPSP-AWB (Pipavav Port-Aurangabad), noticed a lion standing on the railway monitor round 05:00 pm. He stopped the practice by making use of emergency brakes and saved the lion. After forest guards Vasudevbhai and Rambhai knowledgeable that the monitor was clear, the practice was taken by the loco pilot from the spot in direction of the vacation spot station,” an official launch from the Bhavnagar division of Western Railway said quoting Mashooque Ahmad, senior divisional business supervisor (DCM) of Bhavnagar divisional railway.
After being pulled up by the Gujarat Excessive Court docket over deaths of seven lions on railway tracks between July 2023 and January 2024, the Western Railway had in April knowledgeable the court docket that it had determined to impose a warning order (CO) on everlasting foundation from sundown to dawn in 9 lion hotspots areas between Pipavav and Lilia in Amreli. As well as, it was additionally determined to restrict the velocity of trains to 40 kmph throughout these hours.
The Bhavnagar divisional railway and the Gujarat forest division had additionally put in place a mechanism to share real-time info of practice motion. The everlasting CO covers round 90-km-long monitor connecting the busy Pipavav port to the remainder of India in addition to the Mahuva-Savarkundla line.
Ahmad stated that attributable to varied measures taken by the Bhavnagar divisional railway, 13 attainable lion-train collisions had been prevented through the previous two months. Sunday’s incident was the 14th.
“Division has given strict directions to the loco pilots for velocity management. They’ve been instructed to be additional cautious in forest areas like Dhasa to Pipavav, Gadhakada to Vijpadi, Rajula Metropolis to Pipavav Port and Rajula to Mahuva sections and to maintain blowing the horn and to maintain the velocity restrict below management, which is being complied with by the loco pilots. Warning orders are issued by the Railway Administration when it’s recognized that lions are close to the railway monitor,” Ahmad stated in a latest launch.