Guwahati: Train services over the Lumding – Badarpur hill section had to be suspended from evening hours of Monday in order to ensure safety of railway passengers, after boulders along with land mass fell over the railway track in the New Haflong - Jatinga Lampur section owing to improper construction work being undertaken by the NHAI for repairing of road.
NF Railway said that road repairing works were going on in that area. As a result of the work, the slope on the downstream side between the road and rail line failed and bulged out, forcing the entire mass moving towards the track. Water is also directly coming over the track from the road side. As the condition of location is critical and highly unsafe for passage of trains, rail traffic has been suspended between Lumding - New Haflong - Badarpur portions with immediate effect, resulting cancellations and short termination of train services over that section.
N.F. Railway authority of the Lumding Division has already written to the NHAI authority to undertake proper protection work by engaging manpower and machinery so that no further damage to the vital railway track connecting states like Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and parts of Barak Valley is done. Meanwhile, the Railways has already engaged manpower to clear the debris from the railway track, a press statement said.
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