Ghotki rail crash may refer to:
Pakistan Railways is the national, state-owned railway company of Pakistan. Founded in 1861 and headquartered in Lahore, it owns 7,791 kilometres of track across Pakistan from Torkham to Karachi, offering both freight and passenger services.
A signal passed at danger (S.P.A.D.), known in the United States as a stop signal overrun and in Canada as passing a stop signal, is an event on a railway where a train passes a stop signal without authority. In the United States and Canada, this may be known colloquially as running a red, though this idiom principally refers to automobiles passing red traffic signals.
The Ghotki rail crash occurred on 13 July 2005, at around 3:40am local time near Ghotki, Pakistan. No. 24 Dn train stopped at the station of Sarhad was hit from behind by the following Karachi Express train, causing several cars to derail; these were then hit by a third train running in the opposite direction (Tezgam). A total of seventeen train cars, carrying over 3000 passengers, were wrecked. Estimates of the death toll ranged as high as over 130. It was the worst train accident in Pakistan in fifteen years.
Ghotki, is a city in northern Sindh, Pakistan. It is the headquarter of Ghotki Taluka. It is the 87th largest city of Pakistan by population. Ghotki is famous for Date Palm.
Ghotki District is a district of the province of Sindh, Pakistan, with headquarter the city of Mirpur Mathelo. Prior to its establishment as a district in 1983, it formed part of Sukkur District. According to the 1998 census, the district had a population of 970,550. Of these residents, 158,500 (16.33%) lived in urban areas, and 812,050 (83.67%) lived in rural areas.
In a railway accident, telescoping occurs when the underframe of one vehicle overrides that of another, and smashes through the second vehicle's body. The term is derived from the resulting appearance of the two vehicle bodies: the body of one vehicle may appear to be slid inside the other like the tubes of a collapsible telescope – the body sides, roof and underframe of the latter vehicle being forced apart from each other.
Events in the year 1991 in Pakistan.
Sardar Ali Mohammad Khan Mahar was a Pakistani politician who served as the 25th Chief Minister of Sindh from 2002 to 2004 and then as the Federal Minister for Narcotics Control between 2018 and 2019.
The Sanghar are a partly Hindu and partly Muslim community found in the state of Gujarat in India.
Karachi Express is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Lahore. The trip takes approximately 18 hours and 30 minutes to cover a published distance of 1,214 kilometres (754 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line.
Millat Express is a passenger train operated daily by Pakistan Railways between Karachi and Lalamusa in Malakwal. The trip takes approximately 21 hours, 30 minutes to cover a published distance of 1,326 kilometres (824 mi), traveling along a stretch of the Karachi–Peshawar Railway Line, Khanewal–Wazirabad Branch Line and Shorkot–Lalamusa Branch Line.
NA-204 (Ghotki-I) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.
NA-205 (Ghotki-II) is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan.
Ghotki railway station is located in Ghotki town, Ghotki district of Sindh province, Pakistan.
Ghotki is a city in Sindh, Pakistan.
Events from the year 2021 in Pakistan.
On 7 June 2021, two trains collided near Daharki, in the Ghotki District of the southern province of Sindh in Pakistan, killing at least 63 people and injuring about 150 others. An express train derailed onto the opposite track, and a second express train crashed into the first roughly a minute later. About six to eight bogies were left "completely destroyed".
On 8 June 1991, a train crash killed over 100 people in Ghotki, Sindh, Pakistan. A passenger train carrying 800 passengers from Karachi to Lahore crashed into a parked freight train.