Commuters travelling on the Yellow line of Delhi Metro had to face a harrowing time on Thursday when operations on the line were hit for almost an hour due to “signaling issue in a train”. This was the second time this week that Metro operations were hit due to technical faults. Operations on Blue line were hit for almost three hours on Monday due to a glitch in the Over Head Electrification wire.
Metro officials said the snag was caused by signalling problem in a train which was going from Samyapur Badli to HUDA City Centre.
“Train services on line-2 (Samaypur Badli to HUDA City Centre) were briefly affected today (Thursday) due to signaling issue in a train which was going from Samyapur Badli to HUDA City Centre. This was caused by signaling problem in this train as it reached Model Town station, leading to application of Emergency Brakes, which was behaving erratically as the train moved towards Rajiv Chowk. This resulted in slow movement of this train leading to bunching of the trains behind on the line between 8.14 am to 9.10 am,” DMRC said in a statement.
A commuter claimed that it took about an hour to travel from Kashmere Gate to Central Secretariat while another said that it took 30 mins to travel just three stations.