An on-duty railway engineer who was inspecting railway tracks near Kalyan was hit by a speeding local train on Wednesday.

Vimal Rai, while inspecting tracks, was run over at 4:43 pm on the CSMT-bound mainline track, between Thakurli-Kalyan. He was immediately brought to Kalyan by a local and was admitted to AIMS Hospital and then shifted to Fortis Hospital Kalyan where he died.