Nagpur: Thousands of passengers were in the lurch as many passenger trains were cancelled, short-terminated or diverted following derailment of as twenty coal wagons of a goods train in Nagpur Division affecting the rail route, according to reports on Monday. There was no report of any casualty.
The derailment took place at 11.20 pm on Sunday between Malkhed and Timatla stations on Wardha-Badnera section of the Nagpur Division, a release by the Central Railway said. The up and down lines on the section were affected, it said.
This resulted in the cancellation of various trains including 11122 Wardha-Bhusaval, 12140 Nagpur-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), 12119 Amravati-Nagpur and others. Many trains were also short-terminated at Nagpur and other places, the reports said.
Till 6 pm on Monday, restoration work was not completed and trains of Mumbai-Kolkata route via Nagpur were running on diverted route. Due to this derailment, multiple trains were cancelled, diverted and short-terminated.
Meanwhile, over dozens of trains were cancelled owing to the incident: Wardha-Bhusaval, Nagpur-Pune, Nagpur-CSMT and Nagpur-Wardha are among them. The Puri-Okha JCO train has been diverted via Wadi-Daund-Manmad-Jalgaon, Chennai-Ahmedabad via Narkher-Chandur Bazar-Badnera, Pune-Howrah has been diverted via Badnera-Chandur Bazar-Narkher-Nagpur and Ahmedabad-Puri via Badnera-Chandur Bazar-Narkhed-Nagpur.
The Jabalpur-Amravati was short-terminated at Nagpur and Nizamuddin-Bhusaval was also short-terminated at Nagpur. The Ahmedabad-Chennai and Hisar-Secunderabad trains were diverted via Akola-Secunderabad. The CSMT-Gondia, Pune-Nagpur, Ahmedabad-Nagpur, LTT-Shalimar, and Kolhapur-Gondia trains were diverted via Badnera-Chandur Bazar-Narkher-Nagpur.
The trains diverted via Chandur Bazar-Narkher were Pune-Hatia, CSMT-Howrah, and CSMT-Nagpur
Here’s the list of affected trains:
Trains cancelled on October24
•Wardha-Bhusaval
•Amravati-Nagpur
•Gondia-Kolhapur
•Wardha-Amravati
•Narkhed-Kacheguda
•Bhusaval-Wardha
•Gondia-CSMT
•Nagpur-Pune
•Ajni-Amravati
•Nagpur-CSMT
•Nagpur-Wardha
Trains short terminated
•12160 Jabalpur-Amravati JCO at Nagpur
•12406 Nizamuddin-Bhusaval JCO at Nagpur
Trains Diverted via Akola-Secunderabad
•12655 Ahmedabad-Chennai JCO
•22738 Hisar-Secunderabad JCO
Trains diverted via Badnera-Chandur Bazar-Narkher-Nagpur
•12105 CSMT-Gondia JCO
•12135 Pune-Nagpur JCO
•22138 Ahmedabad-Nagpur JCO
•18029 LTT-Shalimar JCO
•11039 Kolhapur-Gondia JCO
12859 CSMT-Howrah JCO
Trains diverted via Bhusaval-Khandwa-Itarsi-Nagpur
•12289 CSMT-Nagpur JCO
•12811 LTT-Hatia JCO
•12833 Ahmedabad-Howrah JCO
•01140 Madgaon-Nagpur JCO
•13426 Surat-Malda Town JCO
Trains diverted via Itarsi-Khandwa-Bhusaval
•12406 Nizamuddin-Bhusaval JCO
Trains diverted via Gondia-Balharshah-Secunderabad-Wadi-Solapur-Pune
•12130 Howrah-Pune JCO
Trains diverted via Nagpur-Itarsi-Khandwa-Bhusaval
•22512 Kamakhya-LTT JCO
•12810 Howrah-CSMT JCO
Trains diverted via Nagpur-Itarsi-Sant Hirdaram Nagar-Nagda
•22827 Puri-Surat JCO
•12950 Santragachi-Porbandar JCO
•22940 Bilaspur-Hapa JCO
•12834 Howrah-Ahmedabad JCO
Trains diverted via Nagpur-Narkher-Chandur Bazar-Badnera
•18030 Shalimar-LTT JCO
•12102 Shalimar-LTT JCO
•12290 Nagpur-CSMT JCO
•12262 Howrah-CSMT JCO
Trains diverted via Pune-Solapur-Secunderabad-Balharshah-Nagpur
•20821 Pune-Santragachi JCO
•20804 Gandhidham-Visakhapatnam JCO via Surat-Vasai Road-Panvel-Pune-Solapur-Wadi-Secunderabad.