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How punctuality is affected with a small derailment of freight train at Naini Jn.
Yesterday around 11:30 am a freight after 3 minutes of departure derailed at Naini. This can affect train operation to what extent have a look at this.
With continuos efforts by officials to bring back the derailed wagon on track and repair the track the pf4 of naini was totally blocked thus making just one pf I.e., pf 3 operational to pass up/dn trains and with main line trains at very less gap this became hectic as the...
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line of coi has to x main line. The main line traffic was equally or I say more affected than the affected coi track.
Now freights departing MGS after 1400 along with other trains were made to wait at various stations because of a traffic jam right from ALD to Chunar and as a result the freights are arriving today after 0600 back to back. Now some people justifying the sordid act of people beating officials for 1hr halt of their beloved Vikramsheela Express should give their expert reviews over this as well. 16 hours for 153 kms. Trains like purushottam, mahabodhi managed to reach ALD before 2200 hours by overtaking those poor freights, the night traffic is very well known to everyone yet some people deny this fact. This was done to maintain the so called punctuality of trains by hanging up freights at longer hours at remote stations.