Driver loses track: Train leaves for Bihar, reaches UP

Lucknow: You must have heard people getting strayed, but in a bizarre incident, a Bihar bound train today diverted from its route and reached Allahabad city of Uttar Pradesh.

The special train, en route from Delhi to Darbhanga in Bihar, surprisingly changed its route and headed for Allahabad.

The irresponsible act has, however, left the railway officials 'jittery' and 'speechless'.

The Pooja special train 4006 B had left the Delhi railway station for Bihar late last night and had to traverse through Kanpur, Lucknow and Gonda.

However, when the train started heading towards the other city, the passengers pulled the chain near Sarsol station.

Later, after much commotion, the train returned to Kanpur central station, from where it proceeded for Bihar.

The railway officials were, however, tightlipped on the matter.

And while the guard of the train blames the administration for wrongly briefing him and the driver, passengers say that it was entirely the guard's fault.

“We were instructed to take the train to Allahabad. It was on papers as well so we followed the instructions,” the train’s guard, G S Dubey, says.

“When I started from Kanpur, I saw the train was on the wrong track, so I called up Railway Enquiry. The train halted but they did not know the next course of action. The guard and the driver were referring to the train number as 4006A while actually the number was 4006B, and it was very clearly mentioned on the papers the guard was carrying,” a passenger said.