RailEnquiry

The rear bogie of a toy train derailed five minutes after it left the Darjeeling station on Monday morning. An official of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway said the compartment jumped off the narrow gauge when a bundle of aluminium sheets kept at a hardware shop fell on the tracks. The train with two compartments was on the way to Jorebunglow station uphill and had 16 tourists. Since the toy trains move very slowly and the tracks are on the road, none of the passengers was injured when the rake derailed at 10.45am. Purnabha Bose, a tourist from Calcutta, said: "We felt a jerk and then we found out that our bogie had jumped the tracks." The DHR officials said they would file an FIR against the shopowner. Most of the railway land, right from the Darjeeling station to Sukna, has been encroached upon. The ride resumed after the bogie was put back on the tracks an hour later.