the actual cause of the perumon tragedy known to 20 LPs is this:
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Maintenance work was going on on the bridge. They had called up the nearest station ( Kollam Jn) and enquired about the passing trains. They were told that the Island Express which was due to pass then is late by an hour or so. The workers had lifted a rail, delinked it and the repair went on. Then they went for a tea break, leaving the separated rail, assured that the train was not due. They were wrong;...
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the train kept the right time. In the enquiry commission set up by the government, they quashed the eyewitness accounts, the accounts of the workers themselves. It was an accident caused by the freakish Nature”. Of course, nature is the ultimate culprit, when you look at the fact that it had allowed the cancer, the homo sapiens,to grow.

From my friend who posted on my blog:
Balan, I covered that tragedy for The Hindu. I was the paper's correspomdent for Alappuzha district then. We had no reporter for Kollam at that time and I was supposed to cover Kollam district also. The accident happened around 1.15 p.m. I remember I got a phone call from a friend in Malayala Manorama around 1.45 p.m. saying a big tragedy has occured at Perumon. Those days there was no mobile phone. It was sheer luck to get the information so fast. I had an old ambassador car. I remember driving at 80's and 90's and reaching the spot by 3.30. I remember vividly everything that I saw and did over the next three...
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days camping in Kollam to cover the tragedy, but if I write all that it is going to take a lot of space in the comment column here.
Months later, the Chief Raliway Safety Commissioner called me also for the inquiry. I was asked to bring with me the notes I had scribbled on those days, talking to witnesses etc. Suryanarayana (the Chief Safety Commissioner), interviewed me for nearly one hour during his sitting in TVM. After his finding was published, I realised he had been, all through the questioning, trying to get from me depositions to strengthen his pre-decideded tornado theory. I had filed a story in our paper about a person who was crossing the bridge when the train chugged its way on to the bridge (This report was, what we call in the profession, an 'exclusive'.) He had stepped into one of those pedestrian boxes they have on such bridges. His version of seeing the bogies falling into the river all around him, somehow by luck sparing him, was presented in my report with the full drama of the experience. He had spoken to me about the whistling sound of the wind and a slight drizzle that was on and I was a cub reporter those days and I had pitched the whole thing strong. My report was one of the things Mr. Suryanarayana had used to substantiate the tornado theory, I fear.

i have joined today i agree. i have been into this site from Feb 2010.
1. Discussions can be had here. But if once anyone feels that the blog is getting hot. it should be locked. The problem is that one person locks another reopens. i have not observed this thing until the prev list of admins were released and the archiving numbering was introduced. I have chatted in personal to a lot of admins here. "to be honest i find is that This numbering game is spoiling the mood here. When i was introduced to this site, it was having less admins and it was peace here. I guess Basu and all were the admins here that time. Sorry if...
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my memory is not good as i am too old of 65.
Let one admin archive the blog. End of matter. Y again to re open the blog. A person died. Post mortem was conducted and body burried. Will anyone again re open the grave and do postmortem again?
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2. Your comment on the Loco Pilots were"" as for me""" a bit harsh my dear. I am a senior Loco Pilot who has worked in IR and retired. ECor might have been funny for you all people. I have experience of 3 years service with ECoR. The problem with ECoR is that they dont treat the LPs and ALPs as they wants. They made us work even 10-12 hrs continuously and with breaks of 6 hrs again duty. Hence no loco pilots are willing to work there as the goods movement is also high in that area during my period.
3. the only solution to this is dissolving the ECoR to SCR. this plan is being thought by the ministry. Once it has been activated then we can see more trains in that region. but the main problem is if such an action is taken then ECoR people will create strikes and all for the re birth of ECoR. But remember if such an action is taken it will be good for you people and not for the other zones or divisons.
Thanks and sorry for the lengthy blog

its not a matter of apology. Said words and sent arrows cannot be taken back and they will hit the target.
I had posted yesterday and i was made suspended by some admin first time in my more than 1.5 years with this site. I dont blame anyone.
@ all admins
Atleast here after if a blog gets archived, please dont re...
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open it. Even if u have to say anything just ignore it.. Consider the case of a patient in hospital about to die. U are asked by the Doctor to get medicines. You go out to buy and when u return you find him dead. Still u have the medicine with u. Will it work? What will you do? You keep the medicine side ways and move along.. like that should be the attitude of the archived blogs.
I know advicing young Generation is like pouring water to sea as most youngsters hate this word advice. Even my sons and grandsons hate advices. But take this in the lighter sense. thanks