Indian Railway Canceled Trains, Due to Assam Floods: There has been heavy damage to railway tracks, bridges, roads and connectivity network. In many places the tracks have also been uprooted.
Indian Railways has canceled more than 25 trains due to bad weather and incessant rains. Because of massive landslides and waterlogging at many places in Lumding-Badarpur hill section of North-East Frontier (NFR) zone of Indian Railways. Due to this, there has been heavy damage to railway tracks, bridges, roads and connectivity networks in these areas. In many places the tracks have also been uprooted.
Due to the floods in Assam, life has been affected in many areas, due to which train services have also been affected. The landslides triggered by incessant rains have cut off rail and road connectivity with Assam’s Barak Valley and Dima Hasao districts and neighboring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur.
2800 passengers stranded in train due to flood
The NFR zone had prepared all its machinery and controlled train services on the affected section in view of the severe flood situation. But still two trains, each carrying around 1,400 passengers, got stuck in the flash floods. These were train number 15616 Silchar-Guwahati Express at Ditochera station and train number 15615 Guwahati-Silchar Express at New Haflong station in Dima Hasao district of Assam. However, now passengers have been evacuated from these trains.
Over 6.62 lakh people affected in 27 districts
In the past few days, torrential rains and landslides have damaged roads and railway tracks in Dima Hasao district of Assam. This has affected road and rail connectivity in the Barak Valley region of the state. A report by the Assam State Disaster Management Authority on Wednesday revealed that over 6.62 lakh people in 27 districts of Assam are affected by the ongoing floods in the state.
These trains have been cancelled
- Train No. 12503 Bangalore Cantt Agartala Express is cancelled.
- Train number 12504 Agartala-Bangalore Cantt Express has also been cancelled.
- 14620 Firozpur Cantt Jn-Agartala Train
- 14619 Agartala – Firozpur Cantt Junction Express cancelled.
- 14037 Silchar – New Delhi PSK Express cancels.
- 14038 New Delhi-Silchar PSK Express
- 15626 Agartala to Deoghar express train is cancelled.
- 15625 DGHR-AGTL EXPRESS is also cancelled.
- 15641 Silchar – New Tinsukia Express is cancelled.
- 15642 New Tinsukia – Silchar Express is also cancelled.
- 20501 Agartala-Anand Vihar Terminal Tejas Express
- Train No. 20502 Anand Vihar Terminal – Agartala Tejsi is also cancelled.
- 01665 Rani Kamalapati-Agartala special train also cancelled.
- 01666 Agartala-Rani Kamalapati Special Train
- 15615 GUWAHATI-SILCHAR EXPRESS CANCEL
- Train No. 15616 Silchar-Guwahati Express is also cancelled.
- 15611 Guwahati to Silchar Express train.
- Train number 15612 Silchar to Guwahati Express.
- Train No. 07030 Special train running from Secunderabad Junction to Agartala.
- 07029 Agartala – Secunderabad Jn Special Train.
- 15888 Guwahati to Badarpur Tourist Departure Express.
- and 15887 Badarpur-Guwahati Tourist Express.
Short distance train
- Sealdah-Agartala Kanchenjunga Express
- 13174 Agartala-Sealdah Kanchenjunga Express
- 13175 Sealdah-Silchar Kanchenjunga Express
- 13176 Silchar-Sealdah Kanchenjunga Express
