In the wake of heavy rains causing water logging on railway tracks under the Southern Railway jurisdiction, the East Coast Railways (ECoR) has cancelled, diverted and rescheduled many trains.
A total of 28 trains have been cancelled from their originating stations at different places. While as many as 12 trains, including the Bhubaneswar-Chennai Express have been canceled on Thursday, 12 others, including the Chennai-Bhubaneswar Express and Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram Express have been cancelled on Friday. For Saturday, three trains have been canceled where as the Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar Express scheduled to leave Rameswaram on December 6 has been cancelled.
Besides, four trains including the Trivandrum-Guwahati and Bangalore-Guwahati Express scheduled to leave the respective places on December 2 and five trains including the Puduchery-Bhubaneswar Express scheduled to leave from the originating stations on December 3 have been diverted via Renigunta-Gudur.
The Puduchery-Bhubaneswar Express, which was scheduled to leave Puduchery on December 2, left Puduchery at 6.30pm on Thursday. The Guwahati-Kochuvelli Special train, scheduled to leave on the same day, left Guwahati at 1pm on the same day. Besides, the Asansol-Chennai Express that left Asansol on December 2 will be short terminated suitably in Vijayawada Division.
A special train will leave from the Chennai Beach Station at 8.20am on Friday towards Kolkata having stoppages, including at Bhubaneswar.