Repair and maintenance work of tracks and signalling systems at two stations in Bihar and Chhattisgarh will lead to widespread disruption in train schedules with as many as 10 trains likely to be cancelled or rescheduled for over a fortnight from Wednesday.

“Never before has such a large number of trains been cancelled for maintenance related work,” said Tatanagar station director H.K. Balmuchu, adding that movement of other trains running on the Chakradharpur division may also get affected.

Normal services are likely to be restored from February 2.

He assured passengers that they would be given full refund for tickets already booked on the trains that would be cancelled or rescheduled.

The railways are undertaking non-interlocking work at Sone Nagar junction at Mughalsarai (Bihar) of East Central Railway and at Champa junction (Chhattisgarh) under South East Central Railway.

Among the trains that would be cancelled are:

• Puri-New Delhi Neelanchal Express on January 18, 20, 22 and 25; down train on January 18, 20, 22 and 27
• Tata-Amritsar Jallianwala Bagh Express on January 16, 21 and 23; down train on January 18, 23 and 25
• Shalimar-Gorakhpur Express, which also goes via Tatanagar, on January 22
• Puri-LTT Superfast Express on January 22 and 29, down train on January 24 and 31
• Kamakhya-Mumbai LTT AC Express on January 26, down train on January 30
• Shalimar-Udaipur Express on January 27, down train on January 25
• Bhuj-Shalimar Superfast Express on January 29, down train on January 25.
• Nanded-Santragachi Superfast Express on January 28, down train on January 30
• Howrah-Mumbai CSTM Express on January 25

Among the trains that would be diverted/halted are:

• Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Superfast Express, that goes via Tatanagar, will run via Barkakana, Muri, Gomoh and Gaya, from January 16 to 26
• Tatanagar-Itwari Passenger to be halted at Jharsuguda from January 22 to February 2
• Tatanagar-Bilaspur Passenger will run between Bilaspur and Jharsuguda from January 21 to February 1.

Several other trains, including the Pune-Howrah Azad Hind Express, Puri-New Delhi Utkal Express, Howrah Mail and South Bihar Express, would also be rescheduled on January 24, 26, 29 and 30.