Travel woes: 11 trains remain cancelled, others running late

LUDHIANA: With weather taking a turn for the worse and blanket of fog getting thicker in the region, the misery of rail passengers was further compounded as railway cancelled 11 trains for the day, two were rescheduled and another was diverted.

With trains continuing an erratic run due to bad weather, passengers are a harassed lot and are made to wait indefinitely at the railway station in Ludhiana. Photo: Inderjeet Verma

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, January 21

With weather taking a turn for the worse and blanket of fog getting thicker in the region, the misery of rail passengers was further compounded as railway cancelled 11 trains for the day, two were rescheduled and another was diverted. Besides, more than a dozen-odd long-route trains were running behind schedule.

Those travelling between New Delhi and various destinations in Punjab were the worst sufferers as two intercity express trains, 12460 Amritsar-New Delhi and 14681 New Delhi-Jalandhar Intercity, were running late by 3.05 hours and 1.55 hours respectively. As if this was not enough, the 14681 was short-terminated at Ludhiana, thus leaving Jalandhar/Phagwara-bound passengers to fend for themselves late in the night and that too in the adverse weather conditions.

According to the Railways, 12241/42 Chandigarh-Amritsar-Chandigarh Intercity Express, 13005 Howrah-Amritsar Mail, 13151/52 Kolkata-Jammu Tawi-Kolkata Sealdah Express, 14673 Jaynagar-Amritsar Shaheed Express, 15209/10 Saharsa-Amritsar-Saharsa Jansewa Express, 15707/08 Katihar-Amritsar-Katihar Amrapali Express and 22423 Gorakhpur-Amritsar Jansadharan Express remained cancelled for the day.

The 12460 Amritsar-New Delhi Intercity Express (2.35 hrs) and 14681 New Delhi-Jalandhar City (short terminated at Ludhiana) Intercity Express (1.55 hrs) were rescheduled for late departure and 22317 Sealdah-Jammu Tawi Humsafar Express was diverted via an alternative route between Asansol and Deen Dayal Upadhayaya Nagar.

Trains running late

# (More than 8 hrs): 18101 Tatanagar-Jammu Tawi Muri Express.

# (3 to 6 hrs): 01708 Attari-Jabalpur Special Express, 15211 Darbhanga-Amritsar Jannayak Express, 12460 Amritsar-New Delhi Intercity Express and 11057 CST (Mumbai)-Amritsar Dadar Express.

# (1 to 3 hrs): 15531 Saharsa-Amritsar Jansadharan Express, 14681 New Delhi-Ludhiana (Jalandhar) Intercity Express, 12919 Indore-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Malwa Express, 12317 Kolkata-Amritsar Durgiana Express, 12237 Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Begumpura Express and 12203 Saharsa-Amritsar Garib Rath.