On a day when lakhs of followers of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar arrived in the city to pay homage to him on his 61st death anniversary, the derailment of a goods train left hundreds of passengers stranded. However, for the first time, the Central Railway authorities reversed two local trains and the Patliputra Express, which got stuck near the Parsik tunnel following the incident, to avoid any further disruption of services.

Following the derailment, the CSMT-bound line got blocked