Indian train travels 980km in wrong direction... without any rail staff noticing

  • 乗客s furious as they 結局最後にはーなる FIVE HOURS away from 目的地

More than a thousand furious rail 乗客s 嵐/襲撃するd a 駅/配置する office after they noticed the train they were on had gone 980km in the WRONG direction.

As the packed service pulled into the Indian city of Warangal people on board went berserk as they realised they were five hours away from where they should have been and no staff on board had noticed.

The train 出発/死d the southern town of Tirupati 長,率いるing for the eastern city of Bhubaneswar.

You're going the wrong way! A signalling mistake sent the train 600 miles away from its next stop

You're going the wrong way! A signalling mistake sent the train 600 miles away from its next stop

It was when it arrived at an 交換 at Vijayawada it went wrong, as it was 予定 to swing north to its 結局の 目的地 of Varanasi, one of India's holiest cities.

India's signalling system is run on codes but instead of entering the three-letters for its next ーするつもりであるd stop Bhubaneswar (BBS) staff put in the code for Bilaspur (BSP) sending the train in 完全に the wrong direction.

専門家s were amazed the service did not 衝突,墜落 as it went for 600 miles on the 完全に wrong 跡をつける.

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'Though the 旅行 was agonising, we thank our 星/主役にするs that the train did not run into another train,' an angry 乗客 said.

Embarrassed staff, some of whom were 明らかに asleep on that 脚 of the 旅行, also 非難するd an unfamiliar 大勝する because they were running a special service to Varanasi and many had never been there before.

The train ended up in the city of Warangalt when it should have arrived in Bhubaneswar

All change: The train was meant to go to the holy city of Varanasi, pictured, but arrived more than five hours late because of the diversion

All change: The train was meant to go to the 宗教上の city of Varanasi, pictured, but arrived more than five hours late because of the 転換

Before the mistake was noticed the 表明する crossed three of India's 抱擁する 鉄道 分割s.

But when they しっかり掴むd what had happened the 当局 brought the train 支援する to where it should have been for its onward 旅行 to Varanasi.

Warangal 駅/配置する superintendent Jaya Kumar requisitioned the nearest spare train to change the direction of the special service after almost all those on board 急ぐd his office.

'I do not know as to who 許すd the tr ain to enter Warangal section. But once Vijayawada 分割 (疑いを)晴らすd the signal for the special train, we 許すd it to travel 支援する,' he told The Times of India.