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Assam derailment report opens with pilots' emergency-brake warnings

Cabin recordings lead into overturned coaches in Kamrup, before the bulletin turns to overcrowding on festive-season trains.

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0:14Pilots in cabin footage warn that the emergency brake is not responding as a red signal approaches.
1:56Overturned coaches appear in Kamrup; the report attributes the derailment to brake failure.
2:44Police direct passengers toward another platform for an onward train.
5:45Passengers describe jolts, smoke and learning that coaches had separated.
7:18Coverage shifts to festive-season overcrowding, including passengers attempting to board packed trains at Ahmedabad.
9:09Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw inspects Anand Vihar, followed by details of extra services and travelers' difficulties.

A red signal is ahead, but the emergency brake is not responding. That is the warning heard from locomotive pilots in cabin footage opening a report by India's Hindi-language broadcaster NDTV India on a derailment in Assam.

Anchor Syed Suhail presents the recording as part of the accident coverage. The pilots can be heard saying that the emergency brake is engaged but not working, followed by a warning that nothing is responding. The report attributes the accident to brake failure; an on-screen caption says 50 people were injured.

The coverage then shows derailed and overturned coaches in Kamrup, in northeastern India. A route map places the train on a journey from Kolkata toward Sairang in Mizoram. Passengers describe sudden jolts and smoke. One recounts repeated unsuccessful attempts to brake, while another says people outside alerted them that coaches had become separated.

Police use a megaphone to direct stranded passengers toward another platform, where an empty train is to be provided for their onward journey.

The bulletin's second half broadens the subject from the derailment to crowded rail travel around Diwali and Chhath Puja. At Ahmedabad station in Gujarat, an officer asks passengers not to push, while other footage shows dense crowds trying to board trains.

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is shown inspecting facilities and meeting travelers at Delhi's Anand Vihar terminal, an important departure point for services heading east toward Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and beyond. Suhail outlines additional special services across railway zones. The closing passenger interviews describe packed carriages, long queues and the difficulty of reaching home for Chhath.