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Train wagon completes 1,336 km journey in 4 years and reason will leave you baffled
A consignment of fertilizer took almost four years to travel a distance 1,326 km and reach its destination, courtesy the railwaysA goods train wagon carrying 1,316 bags of Diammonium Phosphate DAP fertilizer was booked on November 10, 2014
A consignment of fertilizer took almost four years to travel a distance 1,326 km and reach its destination, courtesy the railways.
A goods train wagon carrying 1,316 bags of Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer was booked on November 10, 2014. When it reached Basti railway station in Uttar Pradesh from Vishakhapatnam on Wednesday around 3.30 pm, even the rail officials and staff were taken by surprise.
The distance is otherwise covered in 42 hours and 13 minutes.
The Chief Public Relation Officer of North Eastern Railway zone, Sanjay Yadav, said, "Sometimes, when some wagon or bogie becomes sick (unfit to ferry), it is sent to the yard and it seems that the same happened in this case too." The consignee is Ramchandra Gupta, a businessman of Basti, and the wagon was booked in his name in 2014 from Vishakhapatnam through Indian Potash limited (IPL), Yadav said.
When contacted, Gupta said, "It was company material and I had not paid for it. The matter is between the company and the Indian railway."
IPL Assistant Marketing Manager in Gorakhpur, DK Saxena said, "Yes, in November 2014 a rake was booked from Vishkhapatnam for Basti area distributers and somehow the wagon was missed from the rake."
Saxena said Gupta is the handling and buffer agent of the company and the cost of the material is Rs 14 lakh.
The company has already lodged claim on Railways and we will receive the consignment after assessment of the material, he said.
Meanwhile, the Indian Railways has introduced a commercial service to run double-stack dwarf containers on trains to capture the lost traffic through new delivery model for domestic cargo, the ministry said today.
The containers are shorter in size and can run on electrified tracks. They enable the railways in double-stack movement of cargo and have increased the ministry's revenue.
This freight train was flagged off on July 7 from Western Railway's Rajkot railway station on its maiden commercial run.
