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A graph comparing the Indian government's spending on the national railway system and key train accidents since 2001.

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The Graphic Truth: Indian Railways spending blitz

The scenes from last week’s three-way train wreckage in the eastern Indian state of Odisha were devastating. One day after the crash that killed 288 people, PM Narendra Modi was set to inaugurate a new express train from the southern state of Goa to Mumbai. The optics weren’t good, of course, and he canceled the appearance.

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