India

Fire on Rajdhani Express Train Causes Damage and Staff Injuries

Monday, May 18, 2026
5 min read
Fire on Rajdhani Express Train Causes Damage and Staff Injuries

A fire started on a Rajdhani Express train. It was heading from Thiruvananthapuram toward New Delhi, somewhere in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district. Two coaches got damaged, officials said. No one was hurt, thankfully.

The trouble happened in the B-1 coach. That coach was carrying sixty-eight people.

It was all reported around 5:15 am. The train, the Thiruvananthapuram-Hazrat Nizamuddin service, was moving between Vikramgarh Alot and Lunirichha. That was under the Kota division of the railways.

The damage wasn't just the coach. They said the luggage-cum-guard van behind it, the one carrying the gear, that got hit too.

West Central Railway’s Chief Public Relations Officer, Harshit Shrivastava, quoted PTI about this. After the railway folks shut off the overhead electric supply, they managed to put the fire out. Then they pulled the damaged coach off the train.

Kota railway PRO Ravindra Lakhara talked about the situation. He said the other passengers were fine, stuck in other coaches. The train finally managed to leave around 9:45 am.

Shrivastava told PTI something else. The train had actually left Ratlam Junction way before the fire started. Around 3:45 am.

“We got everyone off the affected coach in fifteen minutes,” Shrivastava said. “The second luggage van, the SLR behind the B-1 coach, that got damaged too.”

It wasn't just this one train. PTI mentioned that this whole thing messed up the schedules for more than ten trains running on the Mumbai-Delhi route.

Lakhara added some details about the fallout. The fire messed with the overhead equipment. On the line going toward Delhi, the repair work took until about 1 pm. The down line, Delhi back to Mumbai, that was finished at 8:30 am.

After everything, the passengers didn’t just accept it. They gathered at Kota Junction railway station. There was a protest.

Saurabh Jain, the senior DCM for the Kota Division in the West Central Railway zone, quoted IANS. He said they managed to put a separate coach on board to handle the passengers. But people were still angry. Their luggage, their belongings, were messed up.

They insisted they wouldn't leave until they filed an F.I.R. The railway, they admitted, did give some relief. Especially for those who had to travel further for tickets and other stuff.

But there was another mess happening. Officials said no one was hurt in the fire itself. Yet, a van carrying repair stuff later overturned in the district. Five railway staffers were injured. One of them was really bad.

That van was heading toward Alot from Shyamnagar. It overturned because a cow suddenly wandered right into the middle of the road. The injured got rushed to the hospital and then sent over to Kota.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

#sensational#india#global#trending

More from India

View All

Latest Headlines