After painstaking efforts of rail employees for about 27 hours the Mumbai-Howrah rail rout was cleared on Saturday morning.
All the three tracks on this major rail route were blocked at Sarona railway station after two wagons of a goods train carrying coal derailed at Sarona railway station on Friday morning.According to officials from Raipur railway division the traffic on all three routs was resumed around 1.50 pm on Saturday. The blocked has badly hit the train timing and all major trains are running about 6 to 10 hours late. Meanwhile several rail commuters had to face problems due to delaying of train.
Railway officials informed that the Howdah-Pune Azad Hind Express whose schedule time at Raipur is 11 am has been delayed and Howdah-lTT Gyaneshwari Express which leaves Raipur around 11.25 has also regulated. There was slight change in the rout of these trains and were sent for their destination via Uslapur-Katni-Beena-Bhopal-Itarsi-Khandwa rout. Similar the Howdah-Mumbai Duranto Express and Hatiya lTT Express were preceded towards Mumbai via Bilaspur-Katni-Beena-Bhopal-Itarsi-Khandwa and on. In the same way Howdah-Ahmadabad express advanced towards its destination via Bina-Bhopal-Ujjain-Ratlam.
Ratan Basak PR officer Raipur division informed that three locals running between Raipur Durg before 4 pm remained suspended. The Nagpur-Bilaspur-Nagpur intercity express was also cancelled on Saturday. Sampark Kranti Express is running 6 hours late. The Dallirajhara-Raipur train was stopped at Maroda railway station and was returned to Dalli, Bask informed. He further said that the blockade has effected running time of several trains and we are trying to manage it.
About seven long rout trains including Jammutavi-Durg express, Hyderabad Darbhanga Express, Hazrat Nizamuddin-Raigarh Godwana Express, Pune-Howdah Express, Mumbai Mail, and lTT Howdah Samarsatta Express were delayed for hours at different stations between Raipur Bilaspur and Dongargarh.