Pune: A Central Railway committee will investigate all aspects of the derailment of CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat Express just outside the Pune Junction station on Monday evening and the alleged delay in the restoration work.The probe committee will determine if there were any shortcomings in the maintenance of the non-standard diamond crossing in the Pune yard, where a coach of the premier train derailed around 7.20pm. The rake of Deccan Queen left Pune at 1.15am on Tuesday with the Solapur-bound passengers of the derailed train and reached the destination at 5am.Rajeev Shrivastava, the general manager of the Central Railway, visited Pune on Tuesday. He held a meeting with the senior officials of the Pune division.A senior railway official in the Pune rail division said the derailed coach of Vande Bharat Express was put back on track at 12.17am on Tuesday, almost five hours after it derailed. The investigation committee of the Central Railway headquarters based in Mumbai will determine the reason behind the delay.“It is a bit unusual considering that the technical team carrying out the work had initially pegged the estimated restoration time at one-and-a-half hours to two hours. One trolley (four wheels) of the C-15 coach of the train had derailed. Restoration for this kind of derailment doesn’t take too long. There can be some technical aspects behind the delay, which will be probed,” the official saidAnother senior official with the Central Railway said the Pune yard would be checked during the course of investigation. “The yard has a non-standard diamond crossing. The Vande Bharat coach derailed there. The investigation team will check whether it was being maintained properly or not.”He said, “The investigation team will find out if the maintenance of the crossing was skipped by any chance on the day of the derailment or the previous day. Maintenance of non-standard diamond crossings is important at all times and it needs to be done regularly. All aspects behind this incident will be thoroughly probed.”
