Title - Train services hit big time

MYSORE: Trains running between Mysore and Bangalore were cancelled till Saturday evening. Their services resumed only after 5pm. The trains are the only mode of transport between the two cities in the past week with the highway being blocked at Mandya, and so was the case with the alternative route through Malavalli.Senior divisional commercial manager, South Western Railway (SWR), Anup Dayanand Sadhu, told STOI that some activists held up the Bangalore-bound Chamundi Express for about an hour in Mandya.Chamundi Express was detained at Mandya, after which it returned to Mysore around 10.30am."We have promised to refund the passengers," he said, adding that the services of all trains from city were suspended from 8am to 5pm. A train arriving from Jaipur to Mysore has been diverted through Arasikere, while other long-distance city-bound trains have been halted in Bangalore.Barring the early-morning Bangalore-bound train from Kannur (via Mangalore and Mysore), no other train could pass through as the protesters had blocked the tracks.