MANGALURU: Train services on Mangaluru-Bengaluru sector via
Sakleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat section in Mysuru division of South Western Railway (SWR) closed due to landslide will be fully restored from October 14.
Train services on this rain battered Ghat section that was disrupted from August 14 was restored on October 1 with the trial run of goods train and a special rake put up by SWR to help clear the landslips on this route.
While train 16511/16513 KSR Bengaluru-Kannur/Karwar express is the first of the train services to be restored from October 10, train 16575 Yesvantpur-Mangaluru junction express will be restored from October 11. Train 16515 Yesvantpur-Karwar express and train 16516 Karwar-Yesvantpur Express will be restored from October 12 and 13, respectively, and train 16512/16514 Kannur/Karwar-KSR Bengaluru express from October 14.
Train 16576 Mangaluru junction-Yesvantpur express will be restored from October 12; train 16517/16523 KSR Bengaluru-Kannur/Karwar express from October 14 and train 16518/16524 Kannur/Karwar-KSR Bengaluru express from October 11. SWR had to cancel passenger train services on Bengaluru-Mangaluru sector following massive landslides on the Sakaleshpur-Subrahmanya Road Ghat stretch from August 14.
Even as Mysuru division of SWR, under whose jurisdiction Hassan-Mangaluru section falls, was clearing one landslide, landslides occurred at different places owing to heavy rainfall. In all, the section reported 65 landslides between August 14 and September 20. Against the normal rainfall of about 3,000mm the region received between January-September, the Ghat section received almost 9,500mm rainfall.
While SWR had drawn up plans to resume train services by September-end, a massive landslide at the mouth of tunnel 48 near Siribagilu railway station on September 20 added to delay in clearing the track.