Heavy rains force SCR to cancel, divert trains in AP

Hyderabad, Nov 17: In view of heavy rains in Andhra Pradesh and around Chennai, the South Central Railways (SCR) is being forced to cancel, partially cancel and or divert the running of some of the express and mail trains for the third day in a row. Early on Tuesday, the SCR had announced the cancellation of at least 30 trains, partially cancelled nine trains and diverted another nine trains. This was necessitated flowing the over-flowing of water on a railway bridge between Tada and Sullurpet stations on the Gudur-Chennai section. Also, there was a bank slip between Yellakaru and Venkatagiri stations and Vendodu-Kondagunta stations, SCR officials said. Some of the trains that were cancelled included no. 17229 Trivandrum-Hyderabad Sabari, no. 12841 Howrah-Chennai Central Coromandel, no. 22825 Shalimar (Kolkata)-Chennai Central, no. 12839 Howrah-Chennai Central Mail, no. 16354 Nagerocil-Kacheguda, no. 17230 Hyderabad-Trivandrum Central Sabari express, no. 12604 Hyderabad-Chennai Central express, no. 12760 Hyderabad-Chennai Central Charminar, no. 12764 Secunderabad-Tirupati Padmavati, no. 12734 Secunderabad-Tirupati Narayanadri, no. 12770 Secunderabad-Tirupati Seven Hills express, no. 17651 Chennai Egmore-Kacheguda Express, no. 17210 Kakinada Town-Bangalore Seshadri express, no. 17644 Kakinada Port-Chennai Egmore Circar express, no. 17402 Machilipatnam-Tirupati Link express, no. 57258 Kakinada Port-Tirupati Passenger, no. 17480 Tirupati-Puri express, no. 12763 Tirupati-Secunderabad Padmavathi, no. 12733 Tirupati-Secunderabad Narayanadri, no. 17401 Tirupati-Machilipatnam/Narsapur Link express and no. 17487 Tirupati-Visakhapatnam Tirumala express.