Title - Goods train derails near Dadri

LUCKNOW: Movement of several trains on Lucknow-Kanpur route, including 12003/12004 Lucknow-New Delhi Swarn Shatabdi was affected on Saturday due to derailment of four wagons of a goods train at Dadri during early morning hours. As a result, many trains were either cancelled or diverted.Train number 12419/12420 New Delhi-Lucknow Gomti Express and 12033/12034 New Delhi-Kanpur Shatabdi Express were cancelled. Train number 12004 New Delhi-Lucknow Swarn Shatabdi Express has been diverted via New Delhi-Hapur-Khurja-Aligarh-Lucknow. The train arrived late by more than four hours at Lucknow station. The other long-distance trains which were cancelled included 12393 Rajendranagar-New Delhi SK Express, 12488 Anand Vihar-Jogbani Seemanchal Express, 14006 Anand Vihar- Sitamarhi Lichchavi Express and 04031/04032 Delhi Jn.-Chandigarh Express. What added to the passengers' woes was the impact of fog on trains which delayed the movement of prominent trains from Lucknow by several hours.Train number 12003 Lucknow-New Delhi Swarn Shatabdi Express departed at 5.25 pm, about two hours behind schedule. Others trains which ran late were 13484 New Delhi-Malda Town Farakka Express late by more than seven hours, 11123 Barauni-Gwalior Mail and 15654 Amarnath Express delayed by more than four hours, 12180 Agra Cantt.-Lucknow Junction Agra intercity was late by about three hours. Similarly, 12875 Puri-New Delhi Neelanchal Express, 13005 Howrah-Amritsar Punjab Mail, 19053 Surat-Muzaffarpur Express and 13049 Howrah-Amritsar duplicate Punjab Express were late by more than two hours due to fog. Train number 19409 Ahmedabad-Gorakhpur Express and 13009 Howrah-Dehradun Doon Express were late by more than an hour.

Meanwhile, other trains which were diverted due to derailment were 18102 Jharkhand-Tatanagar Muri Express, 12312 Kalka-Howrah Kalka Mail, 15484 Delhi Jn.-Alipurdwar Mahananda Express, 12555 Gorakhpur-Hisar Gorakhdham Express and 14723 Kanpur Central-Bhiwani Kalindi Express trains were diverted to run via Ghaziabad-Hapur-Khurja. The 12826 New Delhi-Ranchi Jharkhand SK Express, 12816 New Delhi-Puri Nandan Kanan Express, 12506 Anand Vihar-Guwahati NE Express, 12417 Allahabad-New Delhi Prayagraj Express, 12565 Darbhanga-New Delhi Bihar SK Express, 12801 Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express and 14055 Dibrugarh-Delhi Jn. Brahmaputra mail were diverted to run via Palwal-Agra-Tundla.