Vande Bharat Train, Damaged After Hitting Cattle, Repaired Within 24 Hours

The Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express train’s front section, which was damaged after it ran over some buffalo in Gujarat, has been replaced, a railway official announced today. After the mishap, the Vande Bharat train was fixed in less than 24 hours. When a herd of buffalo was struck by the freshly launched Mumbai Central-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat Express train about 11:15 a.m. on Thursday near Ahmedabad, the train sustained damage to its nose.

“The nose cone cover of the train’s driver coach along with its mounting brackets was damaged in the cattle-hit incident. However, the vital parts of the train remained unaffected. The damaged nose cone was replaced at the Coach Care Centre in Mumbai Central,” Sumit Thakur, chief public relations officer of the Western Railway said.

FRP was used to make the nose cone (fibre-reinforced plastic).

The incident had happened between Ahmedabad’s Vatva and Maninagar neighbourhoods, but on Thursday the train had travelled without the panel to Gandhinagar Capital station and again to Mumbai Central.

“The nose cover’s purpose is to deflect the force of an impact away from the train’s working components. As a result, it is replaceable because it is intended to be a sacrifice “said Thakur.

He claimed that there are preserved in sufficient numbers as spare nose cones.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched off the third service in the Vande Bharat series—an indigenously designed and built semi-high speed train—on September 30 from Gandhinagar Capital, and the commercial run began the next day.

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