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Wednesday, Aug 11, 2004

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Delhi-Kalka rail traffic restored

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, AUG. 10. Rail traffic on the Ambala-Chandigarh-Kalka section of Northern Railway was restored on Monday morning and two trains -- Kalka-New Delhi Shatabdi Express and Kalka-Howrah Mail -- started normal operations on Monday.

Movement on this section remained paralysed for over a week as rail tracks and bridges were damaged due to the heavy rain in Haryana and Punjab.

Though on Saturday morning the section was opened to rail traffic, it was again closed in the evening after a technical fault was detected in a bridge near Lalru between Ambala and Chandigarh in the segment. Railway engineers were rushed to the site for repair work and the segment was reopened this morning for normal traffic, said a Northern Railway spokesperson.

Meanwhile, the other routes between Ambala-Rajpura and onward to Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jammu might still take some days before being made fully operational.

Among that trains that were cancelled by Northern Railway today included the Muri Express running between New Delhi-Amritsar-Jammu Tawi, the Golden Temple Mail between Amritsar-New Delhi, the Kalka Mail between Kalka-Delhi, the Malwa Express, the Udyan Abha Toofan Express and the Chhattisgarh Express.

Informing that the Kalka-Jodhpur Kalka Express and Mumbai Central-Kalka Paschim Link Express will remain cancelled till further notice, the spokesperson said the New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Express, the New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi Express, the Lucknow-Chandigarh Express, the Hazrat Nizamuddin-Kalka Himalayan Queen Express and the Bhiwani-Kalka Ekta Express were among that trains that would start normal operation from Tuesday.

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