Title - Missing keys lead to 5-hour rail blockade

Train services at Canning section of Sealdah south section was disrupted for five hours today due to passengers' agitation alleging late running of trains. Railway officials said the driver of an early morning train being ill couldn't remember where he had kept the keys and so the train was delayed.When the 6:30 a.m. Up Canning local got delayed in leaving the Canning station due to the loss of keys, the daily passengers started an agitation in the platform and put up a rail block demanding immediate departure of the train.

The driver took 15 minutes to find the keys, but when the train was ready to leave the station the passengers continued to block its passage. The blockade spread to Betberia and Ghola stations also. 

In the meantime, railway officials took the decision to turn back all Canningbound trains to Sealdah from Champahati station. Then the passengers who were going to Canning started a blockade at Champahati station. 

The agitation continued for five hours and at 11:30 a.m. and after the intervention of higher officials the trains in that section started running as usual.