BHUBANESWAR: Several trains were cancelled, two short-terminated and 20 others regulated on different routes due to water-logging at Khurda Road and Bhubaneswar Railway stations and Puri yard on Saturday following incessant rains in the last 24 hours.
Sources at East Coast Railway (ECoR) said all Rath Yatra special trains between Khurda Road-Puri-Khurda Road and Khurda Road-Nayagarh-Khurda Road have been cancelled along with Cuttack-Paradip-Cuttack passenger train and Bhubaneswar-Puri-Bhubaneswar Rath Yatra special passenger train.
Cuttack-Bhadrak passenger train leaving Cuttack on Saturday has been short-terminated at Jajpur Keonjhar Road and will run as Bhadrak-Cuttack Passenger from Jajpur Keonjar Road. The services of Cuttack-Bhadrak-Cuttack passenger train will remain cancelled between Jajpur Keojhar Road and Bhadrak.
The services of trains which were regulated, however, resumed after water level started receding. Following trains have left the respective Stations where those were controlled.
Bhubaneswar-Puri Rath Yatra special train left Sakhigopal at 8.11 am instead of 6.35
am.
Khurda-Puri Passenger train left Khurda Road at 8.20 am instead of 7 am
Bhubaneswar-Bangalore Prasanti Express left Bhubaneswar at 6.35 am instead of 5.30 am
Howrah-Puri Express left Retang at 6.28 am instead of 5.50 am
Bhubaneswar-Visakhapatnam Superfast Express left Bhubaneswar at 9.20 am instead of
7.35 am
Bhubaneswar-Secunderabad Visakha Express left Bhubaneswar at 9 am instead of 8.30 am
Thiruvananthapuram-Salimar Express left Bhubaneswar at 9.07 am instead of 7.14
Howrah-Chennai Central mail left Bhubaneswar at 7.55 am instead of 7.02 am
Hatia-Puri Tapaswini Express left Bhubaneswar at 9.10 am instead of 6.35 am
Puri-Kamakhaya Express left Mancheswar Station at 9.08 am instead of 7 am
Rourkela-Gunupur Rajya Rani Express left Bhubaneswar at 9.12 am instead of 8.10 am
Puri-Durg Express left Mancheswar station at 9.18 am instead of 8.38 am
Puri-Cuttack left Puri station at 8.15 am instead of 8 am
Puri-Gunupur left Delangr at 9 am instead of 8.30 am
Barbil-Puri Express left Motari Station at 8.55 am instead of 6.50 am
Howrah-Puri Satabdi Express left Khurda Road station at 8.38 am instead of 6.30 am
Howrah-Sri Satya Sai Prasanti Nilayam Express left Kaipadar Road at 9.40 am instead
of 7.30 am
Visakhapatnam-Amritsar Hirakud Express left Khurd Road station at 9.10 am instead
of 6.30 am
Ernakulam-Patna Express left Khurda Road station at 8.55 am instead of 6 am
Howrah-Mysore Express left Bhubaneswar at 7.40 am instead of 7.10 am