Northern Railways restore rail traffic in Punjab

Northern Railways restore rail traffic in Punjab

In a big relief to passengers, the rail traffic in north India was restored this afternoon after 36 hours following protests in Punjab over the killing of a Sikh sect leader in Vienna.
"Rail traffic was restored in Punjab at 3.30 pm this afternoon and the first train left from Jammu Tawi to Varanasi via Punjab",a Northern Railways spokesperson told PTI.

Rail traffic was badly affected for nearly 36 hours in Punjab because of the spiralling violence there.

Northern Railways had to cancel as many as 30 trains yesterday and four trains this afternoon.

Thousands of passengers were stranded at railway stations because of the halted train service and they were provided shelter at Gurudwaras and railway colonies.

Food was also being provided free of cost by the Northern Railway Women's Welfare Organisation, he said.

Railways had cancelled over 30 trains yesterday and regulated another 10 because of the violence. Over 14 trains were also left stranded midway at several stations in the state as protesters squatted on rail tracks.

The violence also caused large scale damage to Railway properties, with sources saying properties worth crores were destroyed due to burning of coaches and stone pelting at the locomotives.

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Northern Railway

Northern Indian Railway
Headquarters: Delhi
Divisions: Delhi, Ambala, Firozpur, Lucknow, Moradabad
Established on: 14 April 1952
The Northern Railway (NR) is one amongst the nine older zones of Indian Railways. Delhi, the capital city of India, serves as the headquarters of Northern Railway. The whole zone is divided into five divisions namely Delhi, Ferozpur, Ambala, Lucknow and Moradabad for smooth administration. Northern Railway is also acknowledged to have the largest route kilometers of track (6807 km) under its control consistently yet after the streamlining of the railways into the new structure of zones.

On 14 April 1952, Northern Indian Railway came into being after amalgamation of Jodhpur Railway, Bikaner Railway, Eastern Punjab Railway, north-west of Mughalsarai and three divisions of the East Indian Railway. Northern Railway embraces states of Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and Chandigarh (Union Territory) in India. Not only this, NR is also known for operating world's largest route relay interlocking (RRI) at Delhi.