The engine of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) toy train derailed near Tung, about 30 km from here, but no one was injured, DHR officials said today.
The engine of the empty toy train derailed near Tung on the Kurseong-Darjeeling stretch yesterday when it was pulling three empty coaches, the officials said.
On January 26, a tourist Moly Pal from Kolkata died when she jumped off the toy train from Siliguri to Gayabari after the train brakes failed and the train hurtled down a slope in Kurseong before it was stopped by applying emergency brakes.
Three others were also injured in the January 26 incident.
"There was some slipping of wheels on the tracks when the train was travelling downhill. This happens when brakes are applied forcefully in a moving train. An inquiry committee will investigate the incident," A K Sharma, divisional railway manager (Katihar division) of the Northeast Frontier Railway, said about the January 26 incident.
The DHR is running since 1881 and was accorded the world heritage status by UNESCO in 1999.
Diesel engines were introduced around 20 years ago.
