Due to soil erosion from under the rail track in between Sindi and Tuljapur stations on Nagpur-Wardha section of Central railway operation of trains were badly affected as also most of the trains coming from Mumbai to Nagpur were diverted via Itarasi from July 19 on wards leading to 5-9 hours delay in trains’ arrival at Nagpur causing great inconvenience to passengers.
Working on war footing the railways completed the necessary repairs on down line and restored the traffic on the route Monday morning. On the down line itself up and down trains are operated with railways expressing the hope that by Tuesday the Up line will also be repaired. Meanwhile, according to a release of South East Central Railway, Raipur trains operating from Mumbai to Howrah via Raipur were running several hours late on Monday as well.
12833 Ahmadabad-Howrah Express was running 17 hours late, 12859 Mumbai-Howrah Geetanjali Express was running 16.20 hours late, 12261 Mumbai-Howrah Duronto was 14 hours late, 12809 Mumbai-Howrah Mail was 5 hours late, 12129 Pune-Howrah Azad Hind Express was 6 hours late, 12905 Porbandar-Howrah Express was 7 hours late whereas 12811 lTTE-Hatia Express was running 5 hours behind the schedule.