In a relaxation showdown, trains are doubtlessly the most laidback style of travel, allowing us to sit back, relax, and enjoy the picturesque view. Luckily, some of the world’s most beautiful destinations are also home to the most scenic train rides. What a great way to rejuvenate! But what if notorious co-passengers like rats, bedbugs, and cockroaches also wish to accompany us? It would not take long for an ecstatic train ride to transform into a grisly nightmare!
Though Indian Railways are known for taking strict measures against freeloaders, hundreds of rats are traveling across the countryside, without a ticket.
Rats, the little devils in disguise, have a single pair of unremittingly growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. Most of the time rats gnaw to fulfill a portion of their dietary habits. If, however, rats do not have an adequate dietary reason or opportunity to exercise their incisors, there is a danger of the teeth “overgrowing”. In these cases, the incisors can prevent their mouth from closing (severely restricting their ability to eat), or the teeth may actually cause injury to the animal, including puncturing the roof of the mouth. The smooth texture, sweet odor and bright color of cables attract them. The railway sector has to bear huge economic losses, solely due to rats gnawing and damaging cables.
Rail cabling holds vital data within it and is responsible for controlling the signaling infrastructure of its railways. Damage to these cables could cause electrical short circuits, incorrect signals, miscommunications, and fires. July 2014 saw a collision in South Western France between a high-speed TGV and Regional train leaving 40 passengers badly injured, all because of a signal malfunction created by rat activity.
Rodents are a nuisance for the passengers traveling in trains especially in A.C. coaches. The number of complaints of rats scurrying around pantry cars of long-distance trains is on the rise.
Some latest news rodent menace in Railways coaches
- Rats on board AC coaches of Kerala trains
Published on: Jul 6, 2015, 04.15 AM IST
With travelers often complaining of the rat menace on trains from the coastal state, a city-based cultural body of Malayalees plans to ask people to carry traps along to combat the rodent problem. The latest person at the receiving end is a Thane couple who traveled in an air-conditioned coach of 16346 Netravati express from Kerala to Thane on Saturday. The rodents, they said, had damaged their luggage and food packets. Complaints to officials on board fell on deaf ears.
- Rattled Passengers Complain To Railway Ministry about Rat Menace on Trains
Published on: Aug 03, 2015 at 17:57
The Indian Railways acknowledged on August 3, that it has a major rat problem. “Yes, some complaints and references are being received regarding the presence of rats in coaches,” Union Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
- Rattled in AC first class, couple claims Rs 10 lakh compensation
Published on: Jan 06, 2016 18:21 IST, Hindustan Times, Ranchi
A Ranchi couple has claimed Rs 10 lakh as compensation for alleged rat bites in the AC first class compartment of a Kolkata-bound train.
PC Sinha (72) and his wife Alka Sinha (62) were traveling in Kriya Yoga Express from Ranchi to Howrah on December 30 last year. Around midnight, Sinha, a retired chief engineer in Bokaro Steel Limited, was allegedly bitten by rodents and had to take rabies vaccines after reaching Kolkata.
Rodents not only target our coach interiors, but they can also affect our trains in other ways. Let us see a few articles below;
1. Railway spends Rs 10 crore to get rid of rats at Delhi stations
Published on: India TV News Desk Updated 07 Dec 2015
Irritated over the menace of rats in large railways stations such as New Delhi, Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin, and Sarai Rohila, authorities had chalked out a plan of Rs 10 crore, hiking its Rs 6 crore expenditure of previous year.
- Rattled: Rodents derail trains in Jharkhand’s rebel hotbed
Published on: Nov 24, 2015, Hindustan Times, India
In Jharkhand’s Maoist hotbed Palamu, railway authorities are fighting a new enemy, literally armed to the teeth – rats. Colonies of rodents which have made a home under the tracks have been cited as the reason for at least three train derailments at the Daltonganj railway station in one year.
There is an urgent need for a sustainable solution to combat these unremitting rodent attacks resulting in inconvenience to the passengers as well as causing high economic losses.
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