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13 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Remember my thread about LHB coaches the other day and how they are safer?

Today there was distressing news about a Train accident In WB that took 5 lives

This tragedy happened because that train was running coaches designed in 1955, which in an accident, climb over one another
Most of the loss of life happens not because of the actual derailment, but because of coaches smashing into one another.

The LHB ones are telescopic in design and in a derailment, they don't overturn or climb over one another.

As a result there is no tragic loss of life.
We had this coaches since 2003. But because the previous govt decided that the cost of Indian lives was not worth the cost of the new Coach, they didn't do anything.

As a result, 50% of the trains still run on these relics, which deserve to be in a museum, not tracks.
In the last 5 years, we are making more coaches in a month, than what we made in 10 years before that.

But we still are behind because of the criminal negligence from 2004 to 2014

Because of which 5 people lost their lives today.

When they didn't have to.
As indicated by some nice people, LHB coaches are anti telescopic, and hence they don't overturn or climb over one another.

Sorry for the mistake.
For everyone who is asking, here is my previous thread on LHB coaches..

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