DELAYS POST DERAILMENT Give passengers of Vid harrowing time as Railways time-table goes haywire
■ Staff Reporter :
TRAVELLERS continue to bear the brunt of delay as several trains
on Mumbai-Howrah-Mumbai route are running behind their
scheduled time due to which their long-drawn plans have gone
haywire. After the derailment of Mumbai-bound Mail in Jharkhand,
the route is yet to return to normalcy. The trains that started exHowrah on July 30 were running via diverted route as the site of
derailment was yet to be restored. Due to long route the train timings have gone for a
toss putting the travellers in limbo.
Mumbai end
also, the passengers
on board Vidarbha
Express (T rain No.
12105)had a nightmarish experience
due to disruption in
movement of trains on
the route. Travellers on board the train said they had quite a traumatic experience.
Due to the long delay, the train halted at several roadside stations or somewhere in the middle. While train running behind
schedule is no issue, at least officials could have made arrangements for food and water. Since it is an overnight journey from
Mumbai to Nagpur, the train does not have a pantry. But, when
the train gets delayed for several hours, it becomes difficult for
travellers to manage food and water.
One of the travellers said that throughout the journey from
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) to Nagpur, the travellers had no access to food or water. There was no way one could
know the reason for so much delay faced by Gondia boundVidarbha
Express since the route was all okay till Nagpur As per information, the
train started a few minutes
late from CSMT, and it contributed to severe delay
enroute.
Especially, fromThane station onwards, the Vidarbha
Express lagged behind and at
Nagpur, it arrived more than
six hours behind scheduled
time.
Meanwhile, Train No.
18109 Tata Nagar-Netaji
Subhash Chandra Bose Itwari
Station stands cancelled
while Train No. 18110 exItwari to Tata Nagar will run
only upto Bilaspur/ Train No.
18029 LTT-Shalimar Express
is cancelled for August 1 and
ex-LTT and also Train No.
12261 CSMT-Howrah
Duronto Express is also cancelled on August 1. The decision was necessary as pair
trains could not reach the
Mumbai end due to disruption on the route.
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