{"id":15645,"date":"2024-02-28T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T04:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15645"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T01:44:23","slug":"runaway-indian-train-speeds-past-station-without-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15645","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Indian train speeds past station without driver"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Footage shows a freight train without a driver on board speeding through a station in northern India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian Railways has ordered an investigation after the unmanned train, which was on its way to Punjab from Jammu, travelled more than 70km (43.4 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av-embeds\/68401286\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/av-embeds\/68401286<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials say it began moving down a sloping track after the driver and his assistant got off for a crew change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 53-wagon train, carrying stone chips, moved at a speed of nearly 100km\/h (around 62mph) and managed to cross about five stations before it was brought to a halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The train was stopped after a railway official placed wood blocks on the tracks to stop the train,&#8221; officials told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities closed off railway crossings along its path, and no-one was hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Footage shows a freight train without a driver on board speeding through a station in northern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":15646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[553,2325,47],"tags":[9,4915,7],"class_list":["post-15645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-indian-railways","category-rail-news","tag-freight","tag-india","tag-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15647,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15645\/revisions\/15647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}