More than 80 sleepers, joint plates missing from rail tracks in Lucknow

Lucknow, Dec 3 (UNI) A major rail tragedy was averted after alert railway workers noticed more than 80 sleepers and joint plates missing from the rail tracks between two stations here early Sunday morning.

While confirming the alarming incident, V K Maurya, Additional Director-General of Police (Railways), said the sleepers and joint plates were found missing between Badhshah Nagar and Daliganj stations of North-Eastern Railway.

He said that two hours before the anomaly was detected, the sleepers and the joint plates were apparently in place. But Railway officials were in for a surprise when during a check two hours later, the sleepers and joint plates were found missing.