Rail traffic was restored five hours after a passenger train derailed on Saturday morning between the cities of Changyang and Yichang in central China's Hubei Province, according to the local railway authority.

Sources with the Wuhan Railway Bureau said that the railway department was trying its best to minimize the impact of the derailment.

At 7:10 a.m., one car of train K504 en route from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, ran off the track at about 7:10 a.m. local time.

Passengers of the K504 were safely evacuated from the accident site and resumed their journey after boarding three other trains that were dispatched by the bureau to the site.

There were no casualties reported.

The cause of the accident is being investigated.