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—Manoj Badgeri THANE: Quick thinking by Central Railway to deploy extra rakes helped save the day for thousands of office-goers and festive travellers from Thane and its suburbs after an empty rake derailed right outside Kalwa car shed Saturday morning, blocking the way of eight other trains which were to to leave for Thane and then to Mumbai.The first train pulling out of the shed slipped off the tracks around 7am. Officials said that ideally, the railways would be forced to cancel trips, resulting in disruption of services.However, the railways used the Kalyan-end exit of the car shed to remove stranded trains.“Two rakes were sent to Dombivli and then brought empty to Thane and operated as special services...
Only four rakes got stranded in the shed due to the incident,” said A K Jain, senior PRO of Central Railway..