Title - 12-hr grueling time for Dmu passengers : Nagaland Post

Passengers at Dimapur railway station were subjected to over 12 hours of harrowing ordeal due to late arrival of Kamrup Express 15960  from Dibrugarh early Saturday morning . Hundreds of passengers had to bear the abnormal delay under searing heat and humidity. 

The train heading to Howrah Jn was  to arrive Dimapur at 2.10 a.m. Saturday and depart at 2.25 a.m. However, all passengers who were to board the train were kept in suspense for hours and were rudely shocked to find out themselves about further delay. 

One passenger who was heading to Guwahati for an emergency work was visibly upset.  “We had “no clue” as to why the train was delayed,” he said.

When the passengers approached the station inquiry counter, none of the railway staff could provide any clue as to how long the train would be delayed. The railway staff kept telling the passengers that the train would arrive soon.

A doctor traveling with his wife and a minor daughter were to reach Goa. He told this reporter “We had to keep waiting as the railway staff present kept saying the train will come, after 30 minutes.

What was even more frustrating was the fact that there was no electronic or manual display of information on the late arrival of the train.”

Another non-local man along with his wife and a little infant who were to board the train also kept asking the railway officials to let them know how many hours the train had been delayed. Getting no response of the staff, they had to undergo anxiety filled hardship.

When the train finally arrived at 3.30 p.m. Saturday afternoon, all the passengers who had been waiting heaved a sigh of relief but after over 12 hours of strenuous waiting under the sweltering summer heat.

According to a travel agent in Dimapur, a passenger train met with an accident at Mariani railway station last night which he said might have caused the delay. He disclosed that most of the trains were delayed for the same.