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Due to breaches to Railway track o­n Nagpur-Wardha Section of Central Railway, 1) Trains going towards North / Delhi side are diverted at Wardha via Bhusawal , instead of via Nagpur 2) Trains coming from North / Delhi towards SCR (such as AP Sampark Kranthi, A.P.Express., Patna Express. etc.) are running late.

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Due to breaches to Railway track o­n Nagpur-Wardha Section of Central Railway, 1) Trains going towards North / Delhi side are diverted at Wardha via Bhusawal , instead of via Nagpur 2) Trains coming from North / Delhi towards SCR (such as AP Sampark Kranthi, A.P.Express., Patna Express. etc.) are running late.

Wardha : Railway track mud slide

An accident was averted when driver of a local passenger train stopped mid way after spotting a crack on the railway track here in Burdwan district, officials said.

The train from Howrah to Jasidih was at a spot in between Rupnarayanpur and Salanpur in the morning when the driver spotted the crack and alerted maintenance officials.

As the track was being repaired, local train services on the route were affected, officials said.

Wardha : Railway track mud slide

The District Chamber of Trade and Commerce has urged the Southern Railway to operate passenger train between Karur and Dindigul to facilitate thousands of workers commuting to the two industrial towns from destinations en route.

Chamber president K. Raju has said in a statement that already the authorities have been apprised of the demand that would serve both the industries, hampered by shortage of manpower, and the thousands of workers who were always in search of livelihood resources.

A lot of workers from Guziliamparai, Palayam, Gudalur and Velliyanai commute to Karur and Dindigul and would be better served if a pair of passenger services were operated especially during rush hours. – Staff Reporter

Work on the much-awaited overbridge across the Palani-Dindigul rail track on the Dindigul-Tiruchi Highway is expected to be completed and the overbridge opened to traffic within three months.

Sources in the State Highways Department (SHD) said the Southern Railway had installed 21 deck slabs above the track and levelled the upper surface of the bridge in June. It had also constructed a pedestrian subway.

Next, the State Highways will connect the railway and road bridges and the subways on both sides of the track.

The one-kilometre long bridge will span three railway level-crossings and three underpasses at Balakrishnapuram.

Residents of more than 50 villages situated between Senthurai and Balakrishnapuram will benefit from this project which has an outlay of Rs.59.8 crore.

Additional plans

The State Highways and the Southern Railways have additional plans to construct a 750-metre-long underpass under the Palani railway track at RM Colony on Thadikombu Road, a subway at the railway level-crossing on the Dindigul-Gujiliamparai Road at MVM Nagar and a bridge near the railway level-crossing at Hanumandha Nagar.

Kangra: The Ministry for Railways has granted permission to the state government to construct overbridge on the Pathankot-Jogindernagar narrow gauge line. The project of Rs 1.68 crore, connecting Bodarballa village with Sakot and Bhatti villages, will prove a boon for residents of five villages.Pawan Kajal, local MLA of the Congress, said this while addressing a press conference here today. He said he had taken up the issue in the state assembly and later on approached former Railway Minister Pawan Bansal in Delhi in this connection and now the permission to construct this bridge over the railway line was granted.He said a number of families from these villages had already migrated to other places for want of road connectivity and hoped that they would return to their ancestral places after the bridge would be built.He said this bridge would be constructed at Rs1.68 crore on Banner Khad and work on this project would start soon. He said the PWD would complete this bridge by the end of the current financial year.

Shimoga-Talaguppa Broad Gauge Horata Samiti has decided to pressure the Ministry of Railway to link Talaguppa in Shimoga district and Honnavar in Uttara Kannada district at the earliest.S.G. Kumaraswamy, Joint Secretary of the Samiti, told The Hindu on Friday that a meeting of the Samiti was held in Sagar on Thursday to discuss the issue.He said that, district would be connected to the Konkan railway after the execution of this project. Ministry of Railways had sanctioned administrative approval for the project to connect Talaguppa and Honnavar and had commissioned a survey in this regard. The project is yet to get clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forest.The meeting decided to press the Ministry of Railway to construct more tunnels along the proposed line to minimise damaging the forest, he said.The people of Shimoga and Uttara Kannada districts will benefit from the project. It will ensure easy access to Mumbai for people of Shimoga district while the travel distance to Bangalore will be reduced for the people of Uttara Kannada district, he said. The meeting also decided to press the Ministry of Railway to introduce passenger train service between Shimoga and Talaguppa as announced in the railway budget and to upgrade the amenities at Sagar railway station. Writer Na. D’Souza, honorary president of the Samiti, other functionaries were present.