No respite for rail passengers

Ludhiana, January 19

Railways had to cancel one train and six others were rescheduled due to dense fog. Many long-route trains were running behind schedule.

The 12238 Jammu-Varanasi Begumpura Express was cancelled. Those rescheduled are — 12203 Saharsa-Amritsar Garib Rath (5 hrs), 15708 Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express (4.35 hrs), 12413 Ajmer-Jammu Pooja Express (4 hrs), 12550 Jammu-Durg Weekly Superfast Express (3.20 hrs), 12316 Amritsar-Nanded Sachkhand Express (1.40 hrs), 14674 Amritsar-Jaynanagr Shaheed Express (1.35 hrs) and 14673 Jaynanagr-Amritsar Shaheed Express (0.50 hrs). On the Amritsar-Ludhiana-New Delhi section, the 12014 Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express was delayed by 1.05 hrs and the 12498 Amritsar-New Delhi Shane-Punjab was running late by 50 minutes.

Trains late by 2 hrs or more

18101 Tatanagar-Jammu Express (8.55 hrs), 1469 Kanpur-Jammu Barfani Express (8.05 hrs), 15707 Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express (6.30 hrs), 15652 Jammu-Guwahati Lohit Express (6.20 hrs), 12331 Howrah-Jammu Himgiri Express 5.50 hrs), 12317 Kolkata-Amritsar Akaltakht Express (5.16 hrs), 18237 Bilaspur-Amritsar Chhattisgarh Express (4.45 hrs), 15209 Saharrsa-Amritsar Jansewa Express (4.55 hrs), 15933 Dibrugarh-Amritsar Weekly Express (4.17 hrs), 13049 Howrah-Amritsar Express (3.52 hrs), among others. —OC