On 15 October i.e. Friday, 1320 passengers had to spend a lot of time on the way in Tejas Express. Rail Tourism and Catering Corporation will give a compensation of Rs 250-250 to all these passengers in case of delay in the train. It was told that by Monday (October 18, 2021), this amount will reach the bank accounts of the passengers.
Indian Railways IRCTC : The train ran after 27 hours on the Delhi-Howrah rail route, but various trains were disrupted due to a goods train accident. Some were cancelled, while others were diverted. According to the information, 132 were removed from other routes. 29 trains were canceled along with Shatabdi, due to which more than 26 thousand tickets have been cancelled.
However, due to the facility of connecting reservation, about 19 thousand passengers were given passenger exemption in other trains. But in the midst of chaos, there was also a delay of trains and due to this there was a lot of congestion on the platforms. More than 80 trains including Shramshakti Express running between Delhi and Kanpur came and went late.
When the media asked about all this, the railway officials said that some trains have been canceled, while some are running the system by changing the route. Their aim is that within two days the derailed vehicles should start running on their own time.
2819 Orissa Sampark Kranti, 01819-01820 Bina Express, 01811-01812 Jhansi Intercity, 04191-04192 Phaphund Intercity and 04187-04188 Tundla MEMU will not depart from their respective origin stations on Sunday i.e. 17th October, 2021. At the same time, the trains whose timings have been changed are as follows: 02825 Bhubaneswar – New Delhi Rajdhani will open on 17 October at 2 PM instead of 10:35 AM.
On 15 October i.e. Friday, 1320 passengers had to spend a lot of time on the way in Tejas Express. Rail Tourism and Catering Corporation will give a compensation of Rs 250-250 to all these passengers in case of delay in the train. It was told that by Monday (October 18, 2021), this amount will reach the bank accounts of the passengers.
What is the whole matter?:
Actually, the goods train between Rura and Ambiyapur was derailed on the Delhi route in the early hours of Friday. 24 coaches of the empty goods train were overturned. This is the reason that the train took 14 hours to complete the journey from Delhi to Kanpur (UP), whereas it usually covers between six and seven hours. According to Shivam Sharma, Chief Public Relations Officer of North Central Railway (NCR), due to this, the movement of trains on the up and down lines of Delhi-Howrah was disrupted.
