Nagpur Metro halts for 1 hron Khapri-Automotive Sq line

 

 

TRAVELLERS of Nagpur Metro were in a fix after their trains stopped midway to station on Orange Line on Friday. Due to malfunction in over head equipment (OHE), the services were down for an hour. The OHE carries the current that is necessary to pull the three-car metro and as power tripped, the trains were stranded midsection. The travellers seated in the train panicked and they did not know what was going on and there was lack of information as to tripping of power. The snag in OHE came at a peak travel time over UP and DN line on KhapriAutomotive Square section hitting the metro services. With start of academic session, Nagpur Metro runs metro services every 10 minutes.

 

This is third instance of problem with Nagpur Metro but first involving travellers. About a month back, OHE failure also occurred and during that time also services were partially hit. Around a year back, a technical snag near Chhatrapati Nagar Square stretch had held up an empty metro train. Previously about a year back, an empty metro car remained stuck near Chhatrapati Nagar Square stretch owing to technical snag. After about an hour, the technicians from metro managed to rectify the fault and services resumed on UP Line, Khapri to Automotive Square. The work on repairing the fault on DN line continued and till that time, only one route was operational on the section. Though Orange Line is not that crowded, but atleast till Kasturchand Park travellers prefer the metro services. Metro spokesman said at present information about affected services is still not available and first priority was to restore normalcy in operations.