Due to heavy rains in Chennai causing waterlogging on various railway tracks and water overflowing on railway bridges under the Southern Railway jurisdiction, certain trains passing through and originating from the East Coast Railways (ECoR) jurisdiction have been cancelled, diverted and rescheduled. The trains that have been cancelled are Chennai-Visakhapatnam Express, Chennai-Howrah Mail, Chennai-Howrah Coromandal Express, Chennai-New Jalpaiguri, Howrah-Chennai Mail, Visakhapatnam-Sainagar Shirdi Express, Sainagar Shirdi-Visakhapatnam Express, Howrah-Chennai Coromandal Express and New Jalpaiguri-Chennai. All theses trains were scheduled to depart from the respective destinations between December 1 and 4.
Besides, the Howrah-Kanyakumari Express that left Howrah on Monday has been diverted via Tiruvottiyur and Villupuram while the Tiruchchirapalli-Howrah, which departed Tiruchchirapalli on Tuesday, has been diverted via Villupuram and Chennai Central. The Bhubaneswar-Puduchery Express, which left Bhubaneswar on Tuesday, has been diverted via Katpadi-Villupuram. Similarly, the Trivandrum-Guwahati, which was scheduled to leave Chennai on Wednesday, has been diverted via Tiruttani, Renigunta and Gudur. The Alleppey-Dhanbad scheduled to leave on the same day has been diverted via Palam, Renigunta and Gudur.
Besides, the Puduchery-Bhubaneswar Express scheduled to leave Puduchery on Wednesday is rescheduled to leave Puduchery at 6.30 pm on Thursday.