<p>Building on overnight search and rescue operation, the railways on Sunday deployed high-tech cranes and scores of workers to clear the tracks even as the town of Khatauli tried to come to terms with the tragedy.<br /><br />Two heavy-duty 140-tonne cranes were pressed into service at the crack of the dawn to clear the derailed coaches.<br /><br />Thirteen coaches of the high-speed Utkal Express derailed on Saturday, with one of them crashing into a house close to the tracks leaving 23 passengers dead.<br /><br />A group of curious onlookers gathered at the site of the accident on Sunday morning, as two coaches were hauled and put off track on the ground beside it.<br /><br />Linesmen and other workers from nearby places shovelled away the unwanted stones and new concrete sleepers were laid to reinforce the ill-fated tracks.<br /><br />Work is currently under way to haul an overturned coach, which had rammed into the facade of a local college, while another sleeper coach, which had rammed into a house, shattering its frontage, is being restored on the ground.<br /><br />“The train had 23 coaches out of which 13 had derailed. It was running at a speed of about 100 kmph when the accident took place,” said Delhi Division Divisional Railway Manager R N Singh.<br /><br />Six of the derailed coaches were severely damaged.<br /><br />Badly mangled coaches are posing a tough challenge in carrying out the work, which has been going on in full swing after the rescue operation by the NDRF got over around 3 am.<br /><br />PTI</p>
<p>Building on overnight search and rescue operation, the railways on Sunday deployed high-tech cranes and scores of workers to clear the tracks even as the town of Khatauli tried to come to terms with the tragedy.<br /><br />Two heavy-duty 140-tonne cranes were pressed into service at the crack of the dawn to clear the derailed coaches.<br /><br />Thirteen coaches of the high-speed Utkal Express derailed on Saturday, with one of them crashing into a house close to the tracks leaving 23 passengers dead.<br /><br />A group of curious onlookers gathered at the site of the accident on Sunday morning, as two coaches were hauled and put off track on the ground beside it.<br /><br />Linesmen and other workers from nearby places shovelled away the unwanted stones and new concrete sleepers were laid to reinforce the ill-fated tracks.<br /><br />Work is currently under way to haul an overturned coach, which had rammed into the facade of a local college, while another sleeper coach, which had rammed into a house, shattering its frontage, is being restored on the ground.<br /><br />“The train had 23 coaches out of which 13 had derailed. It was running at a speed of about 100 kmph when the accident took place,” said Delhi Division Divisional Railway Manager R N Singh.<br /><br />Six of the derailed coaches were severely damaged.<br /><br />Badly mangled coaches are posing a tough challenge in carrying out the work, which has been going on in full swing after the rescue operation by the NDRF got over around 3 am.<br /><br />PTI</p>