A train driver was forced to jump for his life from a runaway locomotive after the brakes failed - causing it to career off the tracks just inches from a busy junction.

The Akbar Express steam train has featured in dozens of Bollywood films and it usually chugs 760 miles across India in a journey taking 24 hours.

But the brake levers jammed on Sunday leaving the driver with no choice but to jump from the carriage while the 65-year-old famous train was moving.

The brakes on the Akbar Express failed leaving the train, which has featured in dozens of Bollywood films, to career out of control

The driver was forced to leap from the carriage when the brake levers jammed on the 65-year-old famous train

The driverless train chugged out of control without a driver for just over a mile, before it derailed in Rewari, Haryana, India

It chugged out of control without a driver for just over a mile, before it derailed in Rewari, Haryana, India.

Luckily, no-one was injured in the incident.

But officials said had it not derailed there could have been more carnage as the train stopped just 70 inches from the a busy junction.

The engine was brought back to a museum on Saturday evening with a crane.

Luckily, no-one was injured in the incident. But officials said had it not derailed there could have been more carnage as the train stopped just 70 inches from the a busy junction

Dramatic footage revealed the aftermath of the incident. The train had come off the rails leaving the wheels on one side resting on the sleepers