MUMBAI: Monorail services in Mumbai came to a standstill due to a technical snag and cable infringement on Sunday a day after the service resumed following a gap of almost 10 months.
In the first instance, services came to halt due to obstruction because of dangling cables near VN Purav Marg. A few minutes later, the rake came to a halt due to malfunction in Automatic Train Protection System (ATPS). Both incidents happened around 3pm.
Fire brigade teams were called in to the site where the monorail had come to a standstill.
One of the fire officials confirmed that they found a cable had come down along the monrail's route hampering its operations.
"The cable had got stuck in one of the coaches of the monorail's frontside portion. We got to know that it was a TV cable and immidiately supply to the same was stopped," said the official.
Later, the fire brigade personnel used a 42-metre hydraulic platform to cut the cable.
"The operation went on for almost an hour. Once the cable was cut, the monorail was allowed to proceed ahead into the station," he said.
Mumbai monorail at Chembur. (ANI/Twitter)
