I asked a friend of mine who was very senior IRTS officer with railways ( Traffic), how could a train left Mumbai for Gorakhpur but landed at Rourkela and and also why trains are running 24-72 hours late. His instant reply was total system failure . 1/n

He further says system of railway is so robust and disciplined that such mistakes are not possible at all. He says all trains have train number when they start, it has a destination point, it has a route charge like via via train will reach its destination. It has a crew team 2/n

Crew team consist of Loco pilot (Driver) Asstt loco pilot( asstt driver) Guard . The loco pilot , asstt loco pilot and guard and other staff like TT etc who have to replace the new crew mentioned in the chart . New crew is waiting at a particular railway station .3/n

Entire Indian Railway is controlled by Control Rooms and sub control Rooms like when a plane is flying in air it is controlled by ATC. So the moment a train by mistake takes a wrong route it is alerted by control room. Trains are diverted only when there is accident enroute. 4/n

However in case of traffic congestion never a train is diverted it can at best be delayed, that too for few hours. Not for many hours and many days. In fact now there is not much traffic also. Delaying of train and diversion is beyond understandable. 5/n

So in conclusion he says it is total failure of system. Many many heads must roll. Those in control room monitoring the movement of trains must be answerable so the top brass of traffic. @LangaMahesh @ShekharGupta @DILIPtheCHERIAN @rohini_sgh @Nidhi @mkvenu1 @SreenivasanJain