Railways opens most routes, pitches in with relief

Railways has completed key restoration works and relaunched services along all sectors in Kerala after they were disrupted by the torrential rainover the last several days.

Working on a war-footing to clear the debris along tracks and ensure traffic-worthiness of the various rail bridges, railways restarted services along all key routes including Ernakulam-Kottayam-Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam- Alleppey-Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode- Shoranur and Palakkad sections.

Wagons from the Bengaluru division of South Western Railway will soon be chugging in with relief materials, especially potable water, from various parts of the country.

Consignments have already reached several parts of Kerala, especially Palakkad, where they delivered over 30,000 bottles of drinking water.

On Sunday a railway tower car had rescued nearly 1000 people in five sorties.

The car, on a track inspection, evacuated the stranded people from Chowara, Chowara Thuruth and Angamaly.

List of cancelled trains for August 20

Train No 22114 Kochuveli–Lokamanya Tilak Express.

Train No 12258 Kochuveli-Yeshwantpur Triweekly Express.

Train No 12217 Kochuveli-Chandigarh Sampark Kranti Express.

Train No 12678 Ernakulam-KSR Bengaluru Intercity Express.

Train No 12617 Ernakulam-Hazrat Nizamuddin Mangalalakshadweep Express.

Train No 10216 Ernakulam-Madgaon Weekly Superfast Express.

Train No 12683 Ernakulam-Banaswadi Biweekly Superfast Express.

Train No 16791 Punalur-Palakkad Palaruvi Express.

Train No 16792 Palakkad-Punalur Palaruvi Express.

Train No 16308 Kannur-Alappuzha Executive Express.

Train No 12081 Kannur-Thiruvananthapuram Janshatabdi Express.

Train No 12082 Thiruvananthapuram-Kannur Janshatabdi Express.

Train No 16605 Mangalore-Nagercoil Ernad Express.

Train No 56366 Punalur-Kollam Passenger.

Train No 56365 Kollam-Edaman Passenger.

Train No 56377 Alappuzha-Kayamkulam Passenger

Train No 56362 Kottayam-Nilambur Passenger.

Train No 56363 Nilambur-Kottayam Passenger.

Train No 66307 Ernakulam-Kollam MEMU.

Train No 56371 Guruvayur-Ernakulam Passenger.

Train No 56370 Ernakulam-Guruvayur Passenger.

Train No 56375 Guruvayur-Ernakulam Passenger.

Train No 56376 Ernakulam-Guruvayur Passenger.

Train No 56373 Guruvayur-Thrissur Passenger.

Train No 56374 Thrissur-Guruvayur Passenger.

Train No 56043 Guruvayur-Thrissur Passenger.

Train No 56044 Thrissur-Guruvayur Passenger.

Train No  56361 Shoranur-Ernakulam Passenger.

Trains partially cancelled

Train No 16606 Nagercoil-Mangalore Ernad Express of August 20, is cancelled between Nagercoil Jn-Thiruvananthapuram and will start from Thiruvananthapuram Central.

Train No 13352 Alappuzha-Dhanbad Express of August 20, is cancelled between Alappuzha-Chennai Central and will start from Chennai Central.

Train No 16341 Guruvayur-Thiruvananthapuram Intercity of August 20, is cancelled between Guruvayur-Ernakulam and will start from Ernakulam Jn.

Special train

A special reservation train will run between Thiruvananthapuram and Silchar to clear the rush. A train will start from Thiruvananthapuram at 12.45 pm Monday and reach Silchar at 5. 30 pm Thursday.

This train will have stoppages at Kulitturai, Nagercoil Town, Valliyur, Tirunelveli, Kovilpatti, Madurai, Dindigul, Tiruchchirappalli, Villupuram, Chengalpattu, Tambaram, Chennai Egmore, Gudur, Vijayawada, Rajahmundry, Duvada, Vizayanagaram Jn, Srikakulam Road, Palasa, Berampur, Kurdha Raod, Bhubaneshwar, Cuttack, Bhadrak, Balasore, Kharaghpur, Santragachi, Howrah, Rampur Hat, Malda Town, Kishanganj, New Jalpariguri, Dhupguri, New Cooch Behar, Kokrajhar, New Bongaigaon, Rangiya Jn, Kamakhya, Guwahati, Lumdinig Jn and Badarpur Jn.