Twenty coaches of a goods train were derailed on the Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction to Gaya junction (DDU-Gaya) rail route on Wednesday.
The incident took place at around 6.30 am near the Kumau station in Bihar’s Rohatas on the DDU-Gaya rail route. “20 coaches of a goods train derailed on the DDU-Gaya rail route at around 6.30 am near the Kumau station (Rohtas district of Bihar) on the DDU-Gaya rail route,” Indian Railway DRM
DDU informed.
The operations on the Gaya-DDU rail section of Howrah-New Delhi have been stalled. The derailment affected the schedules of several other trains on the Deen Dayal Upadhyay junction to Gaya route.
As per the information from the chief public relations officer, Virendra Kumar of East Central Railways, the routes of as many as five trains in the up direction were diverted.
The route of the 12311 Howrah-Kalka Express, as well as the operational route of the 13009 Howrah-Yognagri Rishikesh Express, which departed from Howrah on Tuesday, has been diverted via Dehri on Sone-Garhwa Road-Chunar.
The 12987 Sealdah-Ajmer Express that departed from Sealdah on Tuesday was diverted via Dehri on Sone-Garhwa Road-Chunar. He said the 12321 Howrah-Mumbai Express route was also diverted from Gaya-Patna-Pandit via Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, while the 12307 Howrah-Jodhpur Express was also diverted to operate via Gaya-Patna-Pandit via Deen Dayal
Upadhyay Junction.
The routes of nine downward-direction trains were also changed.
According to the official, the 12260 Bikaner-Sealdah Express that departed from Bikaner on Tuesday has been diverted via Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Jhajha, while the route of the 12802 New Delhi-Puri Express has been diverted to move via Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Bakhtiarpur-Rajgir-Tilaiya-Gaya.
The officials operationally diverted the routes of 12350 New Delhi-Godda Express departing New Delhi on Tuesday via Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Kiul and 12444 Anand Vihar-Haldia Express departing from Anand Vihar via Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Jhajha, according to the information provided by the officials.
He also said that the 13152 Jammu Tawi-Kolkata Express will return to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, and from here this train will be diverted via the rail route of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Jhajha. The train 12382, which departed New Delhi on the New Delhi-Howrah express route, will also return to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction and will run via the converted route Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Patna-Jhajha.
The Varanasi-based 13554 Varanasi-Asansol Express train, which was scheduled to depart from here on Wednesday, will be partially terminated at Saydarja station and from here it will further return to Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction.
The Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction-Gaya Passenger Special that was to leave Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction today will also be partially terminated at Pusauli station, from where it will then head back to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction station.
The partial closure/starting of 13249/13250 Patna-Bhabua road train that was scheduled to depart Patna on Wednesday will now take place at/from Sasaram station, according to the information provided by the Railways.