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Inclement weather and incessant rain caused massive landslides and waterlogging at several locations of the Lumding-Badarpur hill section of the North-East Frontier(NFR)zone of Indian Railways. This resulted in damage to the railway track, bridges, road and communication network in this hilly terrain.
The NFR zone had geared up its entire machinery and controlled train services over the affected section due to this serious condition. However, two trains got stranded in these flash floods, each with about 1,400 passengers. One was train number 15616 Silchar-Guwahati Express at the Ditokcherra station and another was train number 15615 Guwahati-Silchar Express at the New Haflong station in Assam's Dima Hasao district. Landslides triggered by incessant rain snapped rail and road links to Barak Valley and Dima Hasao district of Assam and neighbouring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur.
Cancellation of trains:
12503 Bangalore Cant-Agartala Exp.
12504 Agartala-Bangalore Cant Exp
14620 Firozpur Cantt Jn-Agartala
14619 Agartala-Firozpur Cantt Jn Exp
14037 Silchar-New Delhi PSK Exp
14038 New Delhi-Silchar PSK Exp
15626 Agartala-Deoghar Exp
15625 DGHR-AGTL Exp
15641 Silchar-New Tinsukia Exp
15642 New Tinsukia-Silchar Exp
20501 Agartala- Anand Vihar Terminal Tejas Exp
20502 Anand Vihar Terminal-Agartala Tejas
01665 Rani Kamlapati-Agartala Spl
01666 Agartala-Rani Kamlapati Spl
15615 Guwahati-Silchar Exp
15616 Silchar-Guwahati Exp
15611 Guwahati-Silchar Exp
15612 Silchar-Guwahati Exp
07030 Secunderabad Jn.-Agartala Spl
07029 Agartala-Secunderabad Jn Spl
15888 Guwahati-Badarpur Tourist Exp
15887 Badarpur-Guwahati Tourist Exp.
Short termination/Short Origination of trains:
Sealdah-Agartala Kanchanjunga Exp
13174 Agartala-Sealdah Kanchanjunga Exp
13175 Sealdah-Silchar Kanchanjunga Exp
13176 Silchar-Sealdah Kanchanjunga Exp
Torrential rainfall and landslides in the past few days have eroded sections of roads and railway tracks in Assam's Dima Hasao district affecting road and rail connectivity to the Barak Valley region of the state.
A report of the Assam State Disaster Management Authority on Wednesday revealed that more than 6.62 lakh people in 27 districts of Assam have been affected by the current spell of floods in the state.
