In order to carry out the yard remodelling and non-interlocking (NI) works at Bachhwara station under the Sonepur division, the East Central Railway (ECR) has cancelled 28 special passenger trains from February 25 to March 4.

It has also diverted and short-terminated eight pairs of other trains during this period.

According to ECR’s chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar, railways has cancelled the Katihar-Sonepur MEMU (03367/03368), Jaynagar-Rajendra Nagar Terminal passenger (03325/03326) and Katihar-Samastipur MEMU (03315/03316) till March 4. The New Delhi-Saharsa Express (02563/02564) and the Barauni-Saharsa (03227/03228) specials will remain cancelled till March 3. “The Saharsa-New Delhi (02553/02554) and Bhagalpur-Muzaffarpur (03419/03420) specials have been cancelled till March 2,” the CPRO said.

Similarly, the Habibganj-Agartala special (01665/01666) will not run on February 27 and the Gandhidham-Bhagalpur special (09451/09452) on February 26 and March 1. The Kolkata-Sitamarhi Express (03165/03166) and Dr Ambedkar Nagar-Kamakhya Express (09305/09306) specials have been cancelled till February 28,” the CPRO said, adding that the Gorakhpur-Hatia Express (05027 /05028), Gorakhpur-Kolkata Express (05047/05048), Sealdah-Jaynagar (03185/03186), Gorakhpur-Hatia (05027/05028) and Kolkata-Gorakhpur (05047/05048) specials will not run on February 28 and March 1.
The railways has diverted the route of Balia-Sealdah special (03106) via Permanand Pur-Patliputra Junction-Patna-Mokama from February 25 to March 2. “While the Lokmanya Tilak Terminal-Kamakhya Express special (02519/02520) will run via Patna-Mokama-New Barauni route, the Mysore-Darbhanga special (02578) will run via Patliputra-Hajipur-Samastipur route,” the CPRO said, adding that the Anand Vihar Terminal-Kamakhya special (02550) will run via Patna-Mokama-New Barauni route.

Likewise, the Dibrugarh-New Delhi special (02423/02424) has been diverted via New Barauni-Mokama-Patna route and the Anand Vihar Terminal-Kamakhya special (02506) will run via Permanand Pur-Patliputra-Patna-Mokama-New Barauni route.

The Gwalior-Barauni special (04185/04186) will be short-terminated at Samastipur from February 24 to March 1 while the Hyderabad-Raxaul (07005/07006), Howrah-Raxaul (03021/03022) and Jaynagar-Kolkata (03135/03136) specials will be short-terminated at Barauni.

“The Secunderabad-Darbhanga (07007) will be controlled for 30 minutes in Barauni and the Gwalior-Barauni special (04185) will leave Samastipur at least 20 minutes behind schedule on March 2. The Darbhanga-Kolkata special (05234) will be controlled for 90 minutes in Darbhanga on February 28,” he said.

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