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India’s surging rail investment fails to avert disaster

Deadliest train accident in decades evokes dark past despite modernisation and improving safety record
India’s Vande Bharat express trains are a symbol of its modernising rail network. The total length of electrified railway lines in the country has more than doubled since 2014

On Saturday, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to flag off via video hookup the first departure of a new Vande Bharat (“Salute to India”) express train service linking the western state of Goa to the commercial capital Mumbai.

However, the launch was called off following India’s worst rail disaster in decades, a three-train accident that killed at least 275 people and injured hundreds more in the eastern state of Odisha on Friday.

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