Usually, such reports reach the top officials so that the recommendations made by CRS are strictly noted and implemented. Officials said the CRS usually files an interim report before the final report within a week of any accident, but this time, it has submitted just one report. Days before the report was submitted, the Railway Board ordered double-locking arrangements for all its relay rooms with train control mechanisms, relay huts (signaling and telecommunication equipment for level-crossings), and point and track circuit signals . It indicated in a letter that ‘interfering with signalling’ in reaching the relay room was one of the reasons why the Coromandel Express took the loop line at Balasore and collided with a stationary goods train. The objective was to make access to the relay rooms tamper-proof, which could be achieved by a double locking system that would not allow access to the rooms.