Kolkata-Sairang Express derails at Digaru near Guwahati; railway says all passengers safe

The locomotive and five coaches of the Kolkata-Sairang Express (Train No. 13125) went off the tracks at Digaru station, on the outskirts of Guwahati in Assam’s Kamrup (Metro) district, at about 6:54 am on Wednesday, November 11, 2026. Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) says all passengers are safe and no injuries have been reported.

Kapinjal Kishore Sharma, NFR’s Chief Public Relations Officer, said in the first hours that “six coaches of the Kolkata-Sairang express have derailed at Digaru railway station at around 6:54 am today”, and that senior officials had “rushed to the spot”. The railway’s fuller statement then gave the count as the locomotive and five coaches, which is the figure used here.

What the railway says happened

According to NFR, the train was being received at Digaru so that another train could be given precedence. The statement attributed the derailment to the driver: “The loco pilot could not control the speed, resulting in an unfortunate incident of derailment.” That is the railway’s preliminary account. No formal finding has been published, and the statement does not say what speed the train was running at or what the loco pilot has said.

Relief and rescue work began at once, NFR said. The General Manager and other senior officials went to the site to oversee relief and the restoration of the line, and passengers are being taken to their destinations by an alternate train. Passengers were first asked to move to another platform while that train was arranged.

Early reports and the correction

The first hour of coverage was confused. Some accounts published between 8:30 am and 9 am spoke of several passengers injured, some of them seriously, and put the number of derailed coaches at seven. A post on social media tagged NFR’s General Manager and said the train had derailed “crossing Digaru”. Hospital visuals shown by one channel were described as people with minor injuries, including a bandaged hand.

Against that, Sharma said no casualties had been reported, and NFR’s later statement said all passengers were safe and none injured. Where the two differ, we have followed the railway, the only body that can count the passengers, and no death has been reported by any source.

The train and the week

The Kolkata-Sairang Express connects Kolkata with Sairang, near Aizawl in Mizoram, and runs through Guwahati. Reports differ on which direction the train was running when it derailed, and NFR has not said how many passengers were on board.

The derailment comes in a week of rail incidents. Four coaches of the Karmabhoomi Express caught fire near Sarai Banjara in Punjab on Friday, November 6; passengers were evacuated and no casualties were reported, and Northern Railway’s spokesperson said the safety system had been activated in time to stop the train. Reports on Wednesday also mention a freight train derailment near Dhedela in Gujarat on Monday night, and seven empty coaches that rolled out of a yard in Tamil Nadu’s Tirupattur district and derailed near Thamaleri Muthur.

What is not yet known

As of 10:15 am, no inquiry had been announced in the statements available, and none gave a time for the line to reopen or named other trains held up. The railway has not said whether the loco pilot has been questioned or taken off duty.

For passengers on 13125, the immediate question is the onward journey: an alternate train arranged by NFR is meant to carry them to their destinations, and the statement carried no helpline number.

This report will be updated when NFR or the Railway Ministry issues a further statement on the cause, the inquiry or the restoration of services.