Kuldip Bhatia Ludhiana December 9 There seems to be no end to misery of rail passengers from the region intending to travel to other states for personal or business purposes as only a handful of trains were being operated by the railway authorities that too in an erratic manner owing to a group of agitating farmers still obstructing rail tracks at a few places. Frequent travellers from the city and other places complain that at present no trains were available from Ludhiana towards New Delhi Howrah/Kolkata Mumbai/Bandra terminus Uttar Pradesh Bihar and Jharkhand. If one or two long distance trains were being operated by the railways those were being short-terminated at Ambala Cantt Saharanpur or New Delhi and these trains were not touching Ludhiana or other destinations on the Ludhiana-Amritsar section. Major trains that were not in operation ever since the Covid-induced lockdown included two pairs of New Delhi-Ludhiana-Amritsar Shatabdi Express one pair each of New Delhi-Amritsar Shane-Punjab Amritsar-New Delhi Jalandhar City-New Delhi Intercity Express two pairs of Howrah-Amritsar Mail and Express one pair of Amritsar-Haridwar Janshatabdi Express one pair of New Delhi-Lohian Khas Sarbat Da Bhala and one pair of Bandra Terminus-Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Swaraj Express. Meanwhile the Northern Railway have announced that 05211/12 Dibrugarh-Amritsar-Dibrugarh Express would remain cancelled on Dec 10 and 11. Trains to be short-terminated and short-originated from: Chandigarh - 02925/26 Bandra Terminus-Amritsar-Bandra Terminus Pashchim Express (till Dec 11). Ambala Cantt - 08237/38 Korba-Amritsar-Korba Chhattisgarh Express (till Dec 11); 02407/08 Newjalpaigguri-Amritsar-Newjalpaiguri Express (till Dec 11). Saharanpur - 04653/54 Newjalpaiguri-Amritsar-Newjalpaiguri Express (till Dec 11). Diversion of trains 02903/04 Mumbai Central-Amritsar-Mumbai Central Golden Templs Mail 04649/50 Jaynagar-Amritsar-Jaynagar Saryua Yamuna Express 04673/74 Jaynagar-Amritsar-Jaynagar Shaheed Express trains would continue to be diverted via alternate route of Beas Tarn Taran.

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