BBC NEWS | South Asia: "Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav said compensation of 100,000 rupees ($2,200) for each family of the deceased would be paid. Fifty-one people died in a similar incident on the line last year. The Konkan route, said to be one of India's most scenic, was built in 1998. It is of one of Asia's longest new railway line projects. The 760km railway links Bombay with Mangalore, which lies on the border of Karnataka and Kerala.
The Konkan has had plenty of problems: it was completed three years late, and cost 34bn rupees - three times more than the projected cost. It has about 2,000 bridges and 92 tunnels. India's railway network is among the world's largest, carrying more than 13 million passengers a day. But it has a poor safety record, with around 300 accidents a year."
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