Several trains cancelled as floodwaters touch rail tracks in Patna

TNN / Updated: Sep 25, 2024, 09:50 IST

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Floodwaters have risen above danger levels along railway tracks and under bridges in the Sahibganj-Bhagalpur-Sultanganj-Jamalpur sections, resulting in train cancellations, diversions, and short-terminations. The Malda-Kahalgaon-Bhagalpur-Jamalpur-Kiul route is heavily affected. Railways are increasing monitoring efforts with sandbags, stone chips, and boulders to manage the situation.

Several trains cancelled as floodwaters touch rail tracks in Patna

The flooded railway track under Bhagalpur-Sultanganj section

PATNA/BHAGALPUR: With floodwaters exceeding the danger mark alongside the railway tracks and underneath the railway bridges between the Sahibganj-Bhagalpur-Sultanganj-Jamalpur railway sections, several trains have either been cancelled, diverted or short-terminated. At least 20 rail bridges, particularly bridge girders, on the Sultanganj-Ratanpur route, have been submerged under floodwaters causing complete suspension of rail movements since September 21.
Altogether, 13 trains running on the Malda-Kahalgaon-Bhagalpur-Jamalpur-Kiul route under the Malda railway division of Eastern Railway have been cancelled from Tuesday, whereas several others got diverted or short-terminated till further orders.
According to ECR’s chief public relations officer Saraswati Chandra, the Patna-Dumka Express (13333/13334), Saraigarh-Deoghar passenger (05573/05574), Jamalpur-Kiul MEMU (13433/13434), Bhagalpur-Danapur Intercity Express (13401/13402), Bhagalpur-Muzaffarpur Intercity (13419/13420), Bhagalpur-Jaynagar Express (15553) and Sahebganj-Danapur Express (13235/13236) have been cancelled.
The diverted and rescheduled trains are the Gaya-Howrah (13024), Banka-Rajendra Nagar Terminal (13241), Bhagalpur-Anand Vihar Vikramshila Express (12367/12368), Delhi-Kamakhya Brahmaputra Mail (15657/15658), Bhagalpur-Lokmanya Tilak (12335/12336), Bhagalpur-New Delhi (03483), Agartala-Anand Vihar Tejas Rajdhani Express (20501), Tatanagar-Godda (18185/18186), Bhagalpur-Anand Vihar Garib Rath (22405/22406), besides several others.

“The Kiul-Malda Express (13409/13410) was short-terminated at Sultanganj and Rampur Hat-Gaya (05407) was short-terminated at Sahebganj,” the ECR’s chief public relations officer Saraswati Chandra said.
According to Malda division ADRM Shiv Kumar Prasad, the railways has stepped up their monitoring of rail bridges and tracks by rushing in more sandbags, stone chips and boulders to the affected sites to keep floodwaters under check.

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