Title - Train services resume in Lumding-Silchar News

Silchar: Train services on the Lumding-Silchar section resumed at 12 noon on Tuesday, after 18 hours.

On Monday evening after suspected miscreants removed fishplates from the tracks all trains on the route were cancelled after two engines and a compartment of an empty freight train got derailed between Lower Haflong and Migrendisa stations in Dima Hasao district A total of 26 metres of railway tracks was damaged and the miscreants also manhandled two drivers of the train.

The railway men worked overnight to remove the derailed engines and compartment and repaired the tracks. All trains have started running  from Tuesday noon.

N Bhattacharjee,  PRO Northeast Frontier Railway said that all long-distance trains leaving for Dibrugarh from Guwahati station and those which are leaving Dibrugarh are running late due to security reasons. In order to provide security pilot or escort trains are moving in front of long-distance trains in the troubled Karbi Anglong and BTC areas.

NF Railway authorities said due to technical reasons two short-distance passenger trains are likely to be cancelled on Wednesday.