RAHIM YAR KHAN: Rail traffic on down track remained suspended for around four hours two bogies of a goods train derailed near the Rahim Yar Khan railway station on Sunday night.

According to Assistant Station Master Abdul Majeed, Okara-bound goods train was shunting at local railway station for loading fertiliser when two of its bogies derailed on the down track.

Due to the derailment, five different downward trains had to be stopped at RY Khan, Taranda Sawaye Khan, Kot Samaba and Khanpur stations.

Later, the railway authorities called a rescue crane which put the derailed bogies back on the track after four hours, after which the track was cleared for the passenger trains. The goods train also departed for Okara.

Published in Dawn, February 20th, 2024