Trains derailed in Java

Trains derailed in Java

JAKARTA (JP): Two passenger trains were derailed in different
places on Friday, but claimed no fatalities.

A morning train run off the track in Purwakarta, West Java,
just 200 meters before it finished its journey from Garut, also
in West Java. The accident caused a one-and-a-half hour delay to
all trains using the tracks, including the Parahiyangan plying
Jakarta to Bandung and its first-class version Argogede.

Another accident took place around 10 hours later on the day,
when a train with six crew aboard went 300 meters out of the
track in Cilacap, Central Java, on its way to Bandung. The train,
comprising of 11 cars, was supposed to carry Idul Fitri holiday
revelers.

Clearance works of the derailed cars forced a closedown of the
southern lane spanning from Purwokerto in Central Java to Bandung
for seven hours.

The state-owned railway company Perumka is investigating the
cases, Antara reported.