印度一列車方向搞錯行駛980公里

More than a thousand furious rail passengers stormed a station office after they noticed the train they were on had gone 980km in the WRONG direction。

As the packed service pulled into the Indian city of Warangal people on board went berserk as they realised they were five hours away from where they should have been and no staff on board had noticed。

The train departed the southern town of Tirupati heading for the eastern city of Bhubaneswar。

It was when it arrived at an interchange at Vijayawada it went wrong, as it was due to swing north to its eventual destination of Varanasi, one of India's holiest cities。

印度一列車方向搞錯行駛980公里

India's signalling system is run on codes but instead of entering the three-letters for its next intended stop Bhubaneswar (BBS) staff put in the code for Bilaspur (BSP) sending the train in completely the wrong direction。

Experts were amazed the service did not crash as it went for 600 miles on the completely wrong track。

"Though the journey was agonising, we thank our stars that the train did not run into another train," an angry passenger said。

Embarrassed staff, some of whom were apparently asleep on that leg of the journey, also blamed an unfamiliar route because they were running a special service to Varanasi and many had never been there before。據英國《每日郵報》9月20日報道，在印度，一千多名憤怒的鐵路旅客衝進車站辦公室，因爲他們的列車沿着錯誤的方向行駛了980公里。

這趟滿載的列車行駛到印度南部城市瓦朗加爾時，列車上的的人們發狂了，因爲他們意識到列車沿着錯誤方向行駛了五個小時的路程，而車上的工作人員竟沒有一個人注意到。

該趟列車本是由南部小鎮蒂魯帕蒂駛向東部城市布巴內斯瓦爾方向的。

這是當它抵達中轉站維傑亞瓦達時就出錯了，由於它的方向轉至北方，致其最終目的地成了印度的宗教聖地瓦拉納西。

印度的傳信系統是按照一定的代碼運行，但是發送列車代碼的工作人員錯把BBS發成了BSP，三個字母之差，就把原本的終點站布巴內斯瓦爾(BBS)換成了比拉斯布爾(BSP)，是列車行駛了完全錯誤的方向。

專家們驚奇不已這趟列車竟然沒有撞車，因爲它完全錯誤方向的軌道行駛了足足600英里。

“雖然這趟旅程讓人煩惱，但所幸的是我們的列車竟然沒有撞上另一列車。”一個乘客憤怒地說。

工作人員們很尷尬，因爲他們中的一些顯然在旅途中睡大覺，還抱怨路線有些陌生，原來因爲他們正在進行一次去往瓦拉納西的特殊之旅，這可是許多之前從未去過的城市。