VADODARA: It was nightmare for nearly 800 hundreds of passengers who had boarded Mumbai-bound Vadodara Express on Monday night got stranded near Nala Sopara Starting 4 am on Tuesday morning, they were stranded between Virar and Nala Sopara stations for more than 10 hours. As power supply inside the train stopped, air-conditioning was not working while passengers searched for food and water inside the train surrounding by waterlogged tracks.Many took to micro-blogging site – Twitter – seeking help from the Western Railway (WR). “Pumps to dewater installed, one is working but where throwing water? AC also stopped. Vasai to Virar also local suspended,” tweeted a passenger Suhas Ambekar.As mobile phone batteries got discharged and mobile network disrupted, relatives of passengers started making distress calls to all concerned.“I had spoken to my father at around 9.30 am and had asked him to remain inside the train. But for nearly five years, he was not answering my calls,” said Ashish Tere, who was waiting for his father Sharad at Borivili station. “I was continuously making inquiries with the railway officials but they too had no clue,” said Tere, who finally got a sigh of relief when his father confirmed that he was rescued by NDRF along with other passengers who were shifted to Nala Sopara station.“Members of NDRF, WR and RPF had reached the train and started providing relief to the passengers in form of food packets and snacks from Andheri ,” said Khemraj Meena, public relations officer of Vadodara railway division.“NDRF team and RPF staff later brought these passengers to Nala Sopara from where buses were arranged to take them to the nearest station,” said Meena.

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