Train services in Howrah- Mumbai main line via Tatanagar and several other routes remained affected for the third consecutive day on Sunday, due to water logging at Howrah and Tikiapara railway yards in Bengal.
Several South Eastern Railway trains were short terminated and rescheduled on Sunday.
The Howrah-Mumbai CSMT Special (02260) scheduled to leave Howrah at 2.05 pm on Sunday will originate from Santragachi at 3.15 pm instead of Howrah railway station.
The Howrah-Yesvantpur Special (02245) scheduled to leave Howrah at 10.50 am on Sunday will originate from Shalimar railway station at 12.05 pm instead of Howrah.
The Howrah-Bhubaneswar Special (02073) scheduled to leave Howrah at 1.25 pm on Sunday will originate from Kharagpur railway station at 3.10 pm instead of Howrah.
Garden Reach, the headquarters of South Eastern Railway issued a list of trains which would short-terminate at Santragachi instead of Howrah railway station on Sunday, August 1.
The trains included Mumbai CSMT-Howrah Special ( 02259), Ahmedabad-Howrah Special ( 02833 ), LTT-Howrah Special ( 02101) Pune-Howrah Special ( 02279 ) and Mumbai CSMT-Howrah Special (02809 ) . All these five trains travel via Tatanagar railway station.
Apart from this four more trains - Hyderabad-Howrah Special ( 08646), Adra-Howrah Special ( 08012 ), Ranchi-Howrah Special ( 02803) and Puri-Howrah Special ( 02838 ) would also short - terminate at Santragachi railway station.
The couple of trains including Purulia-Howrah Special ( 02228) and Bhubaneswar - Howrah Special ( 02074) will be short terminated at Kharagpur instead of Howrah on Sunday.
A spokesman of South Eastern Railway said that apart from opening help desks and special counters for providing refunds for cancellation of tickets at Howrah and Santragachi railway stations, necessary measures have been taken to ensure that passengers are not inconvenienced.
SER gets new GM
Archana Joshi, an officer of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS) of 1985 Batch assumed the charge of general manager of South Eastern Railway on Saturday.
She replaced Sanjay Kumar Mohanty, the erstwhile general manager who had served the zone for about two years.
Prior to joining as general manager, SER, she worked as an additional member (Tourism & Catering), Union ministry of railways, Railway Board.
She is the first lady officer to become the general manager of South Eastern Railway. She is also the first lady IRTS Officer to become a general manager.
Joshi has worked in different zonal railways viz. Northern Railway, North Western Railway, West Central Railway and North Eastern Railway in various capacities.
She also has the distinction of having worked in the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Environment and Forests dealing with international cooperation issues in both the ministries.
