Derailment survivor gets stuck in Mumbai local

August 30, 2017 14:35

Talk about having bad luck!

He survived a derailment only to get stuck in a local train for eight hours as incessant rain brought Mumbai and its suburbs to a grinding halt on Tuesday.

For 54-year-old Sukhdev Meshram, a passenger on the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express that derailed between Maharashtra's Vasind and Asangaon stations early morning on Tuesday, it was a day he will never forget.

After the accident, caused by a landslide, Meshram walked till the Vasind station and took an auto till Kalyan where he boarded a Mumbai-bound local train on the Central Railway network.

"After the derailment, I saw that no trains were operating on the track so I walked to the nearest station and took an auto to Kalyan,' Meshram told reporters.

But home in Mumbai was still many hours away.

"After spending almost eight hours in the local train, we hadn't even reached Sion station. There was no announcement, neither did anyone inform us about the status of the train amid the heavy downpour," he said.

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