Mail News Service
Jamshedpur, June 30 : Train services were hit for over four hours due to a traffic-cum-power block at the Tatanagar railway station on Sunday. The railway block , for launching of the new foot overbridge gallery began at 11 am and continued till 4.30 pm. During the block period movement of trains were restricted on platform No. 3, 4 and 5.
As many as three passenger trains- 58662/58661 Hatia-Tatanagar Passenger, 58024/58023 Barkanaka-Tatanagar Passenger and 58032/58031 Tatanagar-Chakulia Passenger were cancelled leading to inconvenience for passengers.
Several passengers, who were not aware of the railway block had to return from the station. Passengers also faced the prolem of delay of some of the mail and express trains which had to wait in the outer signals for a long time before getting clearances to arrive in either on platform no. 1 and 2 during the period of railway block.
Some of the trains had to be short-terminated. The 58114/58113 Bilaspur-Tatanagar Passenger was short- terminated at Chakradharpur. The services of the train between Chakradharpur and Tatanagar remained cancelled.
The Tatanagar-Barbil Passenger was short terminated at Chaibasa railway station in West Singhbhum. Hence, the services between Chaibasa and Tatanagar remained cancelled.
The Tatanagar station assumes importance in view because it is located on the Howrah-Mumbai main route. Several important trains travel via Tatanagar, including the high-profile Rajdhani Express and Duronto Express. The station sees a footfall of more than 60,000 passengers daily.
