A local train on Sunday rammed into the dead end on platform 3 at Churchgate railway station, Mumbai. The fast train was coming from Bhayander, the incident took place around 11.25 am when the motorman could not stop the local.
The reason for the motorman not being able to halt the train was yet to be ascertained. People were spotted taking selfie at the accident site.
The impact of the train's collision with the platform's dead end was so huge that the wheels of the first coach got hanged into the air, ripping apart all the technical equipment in its lower part and also the overhead wire.
The first coach of the train jumped onto the south-end concourse of the platform and was seen lying in a tilted position.
The incident left a woman seriously injured and disrupted the suburban train services on the Western line. The mishap affected the train services which were running late by almost an hour.
Local train rams into platform at Churchgate station in Mumbai