Goods train derails in Bhor ghat on Mumbai-Pune route; traffic hit for 2 hours

Mumbai, Jul 11 (PTI) A goods train derailed at Monkey Hill in Bhor ghat, a mountain pass, on the busy Mumbai-Pune route on Friday afternoon, affecting the railway traffic for around two hours, an official said.

Nobody was injured in the incident that occurred around 4 pm, and the train was brought back on tracks later, Central Railway (CR) chief public relations officer Swapnil Nila said.

"The brake van of the goods train derailed near Monkey Hill, a halt station in the mountainous Bhor ghat stretch," he said.

The affected brake van was re-railed after more than an hour at around 5.20 pm and the traffic on the route resumed at 6 pm, the spokesperson said.

"There are no reports of anyone getting injured," Nila told PTI.

The Mumbai-Pune railway route has three tracks in the ghat section, specifically between Karjat and Lonavala. These are called Up (towards Mumbai), Down (travelling out of Mumbai) and Middle lines.

The goods train was heading to Saswad (in Pune district) from Mithapur in Rajasthan, and was running on the middle line, Nila said.

The derailment affected the movement of trains on the down and middle lines, he said.

Two trains -- CSMT-Chennai Express and Jodhpur-Hadapsar Superfast Express -- travelling on the middle line were detained behind the derailed goods train, he said, adding that these trains were later diverted to other tracks.

CR's Mumbai Divisional Railway Manager said in a post on X that six long-distance trains were rescheduled due to the derailment.

Railway authorities said the suburban train services in Mumbai remained unaffected. PTI KK KRK NP