Heavy rains in Mumbai and adjoining areas caused flooding in several parts of the city affecting air and rail traffic on Saturday with the Railways cancelling four trains, short-terminating seven and diverting 15 others due to water-logging at Ambernath.
Earlier, Kolhapur-Mumbai Mahalaxmi Express was stuck on waterlogged tracks in Thane district's Badlapur, some 70 kilometre from Mumbai, with over 1000 passengers, prompting the authorities to launch a multi-agency rescue operation. A joint operation by NDRF and Navy personnel rescued all passengers who were then sent to their destination on a relief train.
Central Railway's Chief Public Relations Officer Sunil Udasi said that heavy rainfall and overflowing Ulhas river resulted in waterlogging at Ambernath, due to which a few trains have been short- terminated or cancelled.
"Due to heavy rainfall compounded with overflowing Ulhas River resulting in water-logging at Ambernath, 2 trains are cancelled, 6 short-terminated and 13 trains are diverted," Udasi said in a statement.
Here is a list of all the affected trains:
Trains Short-Terminated
51028 Pandharpur-Mumbai Fast Passenger JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Pune17412 Kolhapur-Mumbai Mahalaxmi Express JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Pune and will run as 17411 Mumbai-Kolhapur Mahalaxmi Express JCO 26.7.2019 from Pune.18519 Visakhapatnam-LTT Express JCO 25.7.2019 short terminated at Pune and will run as 18520 LTT-Visakhapatnam Express JCO 27.7.2019 from Pune12116 Solapur-Mumbai Siddheshwar Express JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Daund and will run as 11301 Mumbai-KSR Bengaluru Udyan Express JCO 27.7.2019 from Daund. 12297 Ahmedabad-Pune Duranto Express JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Panvel22944 Indore-Pune Express JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Panvel and will leave as 22943 Pune-Indore Express JCO 27.7.2019 at 18.30 hrs.22149 Ernakulam-Pune Express JCO 26.7.2019 short terminated at Panvel.
Trains diverted
Trains diverted via Panvel-Roha-Madgaon-Hubli-Gadag-Guntakal12163 Dadar-Chennai Egmore Express JCO 26.7.201911017 LTT-Karaikkal Express JCO 26.7.201916351 Mumbai-Nagercoil Express JCO 27.7.2019
Trains Diverted via Daund-Manmad-Jalgaon-Surat16614 Coimbatore-Rajkot Express JCO 25.7.2019 16587 Yasvantpur-Bikaner Express JCO 26.7.2019
Trains Diverted via Kalyan-Igatpuri-Manmad-Daund11013 LTT-Coimbatore Express JCO 26.7.201912701 Mumbai-Hyderabad Hussain Sagar Express JCO 26.7.201911005 Dadar-Puducherry Express JCO 26.7.201922143 Mumbai-Bidar Express JCO 26.7.201916209 Ajmer-Mysore Express JCO 26.7.201912115 Mumbai-Solapur Siddheshwar Express JCO 26.7.201951029 Mumbai-Bijapur Fast Passenger JCO 26.7.201911027 Mumbai-Chennai Mail JCO 26.7.2019
Trains diverted via Karjat-Panvel-Diva11028 Chennai-Mumbai Mail arriving CSMT on 27.7.201911020 Bhubaneshwar-Mumbai Konark Express arriving CSMT on 27.7.2019
Trains Cancelled
22105/22106 Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai Indrayani Express JCO 27.7.201912298 Pune-Ahmedabad Duranto Express JCO 27.7.201911097 Pune-Ernakulam Express JCO 27.7.201911098 Ernakulam-Pune Express JCO 29.7.2019