Write a letter to your father describing your experience of a night spent at a railway station due to a railway accident.

Write a letter to your father describing your experience of a night spent at a railway station due to a railway accident.

The Mall,

Ambala Cantt.

June 20, 20…..

My dear father,

The news of the rail accident near Ambala Cantt must have caused you a great worry. And so I am writing to tell you that I am quite safe and sound. But it was a terrible experience. It was about 12.30 p.m. when we suddenly heard the train giving long whistles. Immediately after we felt a big jolt. Some of the passengers in my compartment became unconscious. I came out of the compartment and walked towards the engine of the train. It had dashed against a stationary goods train at Rajpura station near here. The engine, luggage, van, a second class coach of my train, and the brake van and seven wagons of the goods train were derailed. We at once started rescue work.

The injured were removed to the platform. They were given first aid, in about two hour’s time, a relief train with doctors and railway staff arrived at the site of the accident. We walked with our baggage for about half a mile to board the relief train which brought us here, we reached this place at about 4.00 p.m. At the platform, there was a great rush of the people who had only a few hours back seen off their near and dear ones. The air was full of shouts of the people trying to contact their kith and kin. The injured were removed to the Railway Hospital and Victoria Hospital.

The track was cleared off in about 3 hour’s time. Then we resumed our journey.

With regards to mother and love to all others.

Yours affectionately,

Dinesh.