New Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express suffers wheel jam

The snag was detected by alert gateman Shazeb and pointsman Brajesh Kumar on Saturday morning and they informed the railway operations control, Time of India reported.

This comes after the newly-launched Gandhinagar-Mumbai Vande Bharat Express broke its nose after rammed into a herd of buffaloes on Thursday while heading towards Gandhinagar and a day later its front portion was damaged after it hit a cow on the Gandhinagar-Mumbai route.

The train was stopped at Wair railway station in Bulandshahar and passengers were shifted to a Shatabdi Express rake sent to the site for their further journey to Varanasi.

Times of India reported citing sources that there was hardly any chance of bringing the snag-hit rake back to service on Sunday and a Tejas Express rake may be used in its place.

The report said that this rake had been taken out for repair and maintenance for 45 days on an earlier occasion, adding that at that time a Shatabdi Express rake was used in its place.

The officials stated that the train had departed New Delhi station on Saturday at 6:00 am with 1068 passengers on board, according to the TOI report.

The train wheel was examined by the onboard technical staff at Wair station.

It was then taken to Khurja 20 km away at a controlled speed of 20km/hr, it added.

The railway has ordered a probe into the incident.