Five coaches of a suburban local derailed near Kalyan station in Thane district, resulting in a major disruption in services of the local and long-distance trains on Thursday morning. However, no one was injured in the mishap.
The five coaches of an EMU local (CA-1 Kurla-Ambarnath) went off the rails in the down line between Kalyan and Vithalwadi stations at 5.53 am. The mishap resulted in disruption of train services on Kalyan-Karjat section. A breakdown train and a medical van rushed to the mishap site immediately afterwards.
It took nearly four before the services were restored on the affected line. D.K. Sharma, General Manager, Central Railway, Ravindra Goyal, Divisional Railway Manager, Mumbai Division and senior railway officials supervised the restoration work.
Following the mishap, shuttle train services were run between Ambarnath and Karjat. Suburban services were running between Kalyan and Kasara as usual. The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation operated 15 special buses between Kalyan and Ambarnath and 11 buses between Kalyan and Badlapur.
The affected line was restored at 9.10 am. The first local Badlapur-Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) local passed the mishap site at 9.23 am. At 9.35 am another special local left for CST from Badlapur, followed by yet another Karjat-CST special.
After the mishap, the Central Railway authorities cancelled four Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai trains. The trains that were cancelled were: 12124 Pune-CST Deccan Queen, 12123 CST-Pune Deccan Queen, 12127 CST-Pune Intercity Express and 12128 Pune-CST Intercity Express.
As many as down 11 long distance trains were diverted via Thane-Diva-Panvel-Karjat stations, while seven Up long-distance trains were diverted via Karjat-Panvel-Diva-Thane stations.
The 04417 Pune-Hazrat Nizamuddin AC Special was diverted via Karjat-Panvel-Vasai Road instead of Karjat-Kalyan, while 11009 CST-Pune Sinhagad Express scheduled for departure at 2.30 pm was rescheduled to leave at 5.10 am.