Rail traffic to and from Delhi goes haywire

Our Correspondent

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Ludhiana, January 30

The erratic rail traffic in the region took a turn for the worse with adverse impact on trains running between New Delhi and different destinations of Punjab.

While two pairs of intercity express trains (12459/60 and 14681/82) were still non-operational, the pair of 12497/98 New Delhi-Amritsar-New Delhi Shan-e-Punjab was rescheduled for late departure by 5.40 and 4.50 hours, respectively, with travel plans of passengers going awry. On other long routes, seven trains were cancelled and six were rescheduled.

According to the railways, apart from two pairs of intercity express trains (on New Delhi-Amritsar/Jalandhar section), 12331 Howrah-Jammu Himgiri Express, 12413 Jammu-Ajmer Pooja Superfast Express, 13049 Howrah-Amritsar Express, 14674 Amritsar-Jaynagar Shaheed Express, 15209/10 Saharsa-Amritsar-Saharsa Jansewa Express and 18102 Jammu-Tatanagar Muri Express trains were cancelled.

Trains rescheduled for late departure owing to operational reasons were 11449 Jabalpur-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra (6 hours), 12238 Jammu-Varanasi Begumpura Express (2 hours), 12318 Amritsar-Kolkata Akaltakht Express (1 hour), 12497 New Delhi-Amritsar Shan-e-Punjab Express (5.40 hours), 12498 Amritsar-New Delhi Shan-e-Punjab Express (4.50 hours), 15098 Jammu-Bhagalpur Amarnath Express (3.45 hours), 15708 Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express (1.35 hours) and 22446 Amritsar-Kanpur Superfast Express (6.25 hours).

Trains running late

* More than 17 hours: 22423 Gorakhpur-Amritsar Jansadharan Express

*9 to 12 hours: 16318 Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-Kanyakumari Himsagar Express, 22445 Kanpur-Amritsar Weekly Superfast Express, 12587 Gorakhpur-Jammu Amarnath Express

*6 to 9 hours: 12413 Ajmer-Jammu Pooja Superfast Express, 15655 Kamakhya-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express, 15707 Katihar-Amritsar Amrapali Express, 12715 Nanded-Amritsar Sachkhand Express12203 Saharsa-Amritsar Garib Rath, 22446 Amritsar-Kanpur Weekly Superfast Express, 12497 New Delhi-Amritsar Shan-e-Punjab Express

*2 to 5 hours: 18101 Tatanagar-Jammu Muri Express, 13307 Dhanbad-Firozepur Ganga Sutlej Express, 12237 Varanasi-Jammu Begumpura Express, 13049 Howrah-Amritsar Express, 13005 Howrah-Amritsar Mail, 12498 Amritsar-New Delhi Shan-e-Punjab Express, 15708 Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express, 15211 Darbhanga-Amritsar Jannayak Express