LATHIKATA

BulletinNo.4 at 17.00 hrs

SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY

PRESS RELEASE

TRAIN SERVICES IN SERNORMAL – AGITATIONS AT BALASORE & JALESWARWITHDRAWN

Kolkata,February 20 :

Train services on Howrah-Kharagpur, Howrah-Midnapur, Howrah-Amta, Howrah- Haldia and Howrah-Digha sections in Kharagpur Division of S.E. Railway have been normal. All trains to and from Howrah arrived and left Howrah as per schedule. There is no report of agitation at any station in Ranchi and Adra Divisions. The agitations which were staged at Balasore and Jaleswar on Kharagpur-Bhadrak Section from about 05.55 hrs. and 07.35 hrs. respectively have been withdrawn at about 10.40 hrs.

In view of the agitation, the following train services have been rescheduled, short terminated, cancelled and detained enroute.

RE-SCHEDULING OF TRAINS

·12073 Howrah-Bhubaneswar Jan Shatabdi Express has been rescheduled to leave Howrah at 16:30 hours instead of 13:25 hours today (20-02-2013)

·12839 Howrah-Chennai Mail has been re-scheduled to leave Howrah at 1:15 hours on 21/02/2013 instead of 23:45 hours on 20/02/2013.

SHORT TERMINATION OF TRAINS :

·58010 Jajpur Keonjhar Road – Kharagpur Passenger has been short terminated at Bhadrak . As a result, 58010/58009 will remain cancelled between Bhadrak-Kharagpur-Bhadrak

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·18415 Barbil-Puri Express will be short terminated at Banspani and will run back as 18416 from Banspani to Barbil. As a result, 18415/18416 will remain cancelled between Banspani-Puri-Banspani.

·58151 Birmitrapur-Rourkela-Barsuan Passenger will be short terminated at Lathikata and will run back as 58152 from Lathikata to Rourkela-Birmitrapur. As a result, 58151/58152 will remain cancelled between Lathikata-Barsuan-Lathikata.

·58004 Bhadrak-Howrah Passenger will be short terminated at Kharagpurand will run back as 58003 from Kharagpur to Bhadrak.As a result, 58004/58003 will remain cancelled between Kharagpur-Howrah-Kharagpur.

·12891 Bangriposi-Baripada-Bhubaneswar Express will be short terminated at Rupsa and will run back as 12892 from Rupsa to Baripada. As a result, 12891/12892 will remain cancelled between Rupsa-Bhubaneswar-Rupsa.

CANCELLATION OF TRAINS :

Twopairs of passenger trains viz., 68021/68022 Kharagpur-Balasore MEMU Passenger and 58030/58029 Bhadrak- Balasore Passengerwillremain cancelled and 78014/78013 Baripada-Rupsa- Balasore DEMU Passenger will remainpartially cancelled between Balasore and Rupsa.

DETENTION OF TRAINS

Due to agitation at Balasore, sixmail/express trains viz., 12510 Guwahati-Bangalore Express , 16309 Ernakulam-Patna Express , 12891 Bangriposi-Bhubaneswar Express, 12820 Odisha Sampark Kranti Express, 12821 Howrah-Puri Dhauli Express & 12703 Howrah-Secundrabad Falaknuma Expressandfour passenger trains were controlled at different stations enroute. However, all the trains have left for its respective destinations.

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