Rail passengers bear brunt of inclement weather

Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, December 9

There seems to be no respite for railway passengers as most of the long and trunk route trains were rescheduled due to adverse weather.

As many as 10 trains had to be rescheduled on Sunday while one train was diverted to an alternate route. Around two dozen trains, including a few on trunk route of Amritsar-Ludhiana-New Delhi, were running behind their schedule thus causing inconvenience to passengers.

According to railway officials, 12014 Amritsar-New Delhi Shatabdi Express, 12460 Amritsar-New Delhi Intercity Express, 12497 New Delhi-Amritsar Shane-Punjab Express and 12054 Amritsar-Haridwar Janshatbdi Express were running late by 40 minutes to an hour.

Further, 13006 Amritsar-Howrah Mail (8.50 hours), 01708 Attari-Jabalpur Special Express (7.15 8.50 hours), 12203 Saharsa-Amritsar Garib Rath (1.20 8.50 hours), 12208 Jammu Tawi-Kathgodam Garib Rath (2.30 8.50 hours), 12332 Jammu Tawi-Howrah Himgiri Express (4 8.50 hours), 12491 Barauni-Jammu Tawi Maur Dhwaj Express (5 8.50 hours), 13152 Jammu Tawi-Howrah Sealdah Express (4 8.50 hours), 14649 Jaynagar-Amritsar Saryu Yamuna Express (2.30 8.50 hours), 15210 Amritsar-Saharsa Jansewa Express and 22424 Amritsar-Gorakhpur Jansadharn Express (2.55 8.50 hours) were rearranged.

Trains running late

• More than 15 hours: 13005 Howrah-Amritsar Mail
• Eight to 10 hours: 01707 Jabalpur-Attari Special Express, 13006 Amritsar-Howrah Mail
• 4 to 7 hours: 22551 Darbhanga-Jalandhar City Antyodaya Express, 18101 Tatanagar-Jammu Tawi Muri Express, 12355 Rajendranagar (Patna)-Jammu Tawi Archana Express, 15707 Katihar-Amritsar Amrapali Express, 15210 Amritsar-Saharsa Jansewa Express, 01708 Attari-Jabalpur Special Express
• 1 to 4 hours: 13307 Dhanbad-Firozepur Ganga Sutlej Express, 13049 Howrah-Amritsar Express, 12237 Varanasi-Jammu Tawi Begumpura Express, 12484 Amritsar-Kochuveli Weekly Express, 22431 Allahabad-Udhampur Superfast Express, 12331 Howrah-Jammu Tawi Himgiri Express, 12411 Chandigarh-Amritsar Intercity Express, 12919 Indore-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Malwa Express, 12357 Kolkata-Amritsar Durgiana Express, 15209 Saharsa-Amritsar Jansewa Express, 22424 Amritsar-Gorakhpur Jansadharan Express, 22552 Jalandhar City-Darbhanga Antyodaya Express, 14673 Jaynagar-Amritsar Shaheed Express, 15211 Darbhanga-Amritsar Jannayak Express