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21/07/2007

Train goes ‘missing’ in Bihar

Patna, (BiharTimes): A train can go missing, but in an entirely different way.

On Friday the deputy station superintendent of Sasaram railway station, A K Haque, informed the officer-in-charge of the GRP, Raghuvansh Prasad, at 10:30 in the morning that there is no trace of 747 Up Bikramganj-Sasaram Passenger after it left Bikramganj on its schedule time at 8:00. The GRP personnel swung into action and after contacting police stations between two railway stations finally managed to trace the train. It was about an hour later that the GRP Bikramganj got the information that the train was forcibily stopped by villagers at Ghusiya village, about four kilometres from Bikramganj police station.

 

The villagers were demanding that there should be halt at Ghusiya. The GRP, along with the local administrative officials, rushed to the spot to convince the people to call off their stir. The train started its journey at 11:45 am.

A number of unauthorized halts had cropped up in this 40-kilometre long newly-laid track inaugurated by railway minister, Lalu Yadav, with much pomp and show last year. However, recently the railways removed all these unauthorized halts. Since it is a diesel section and still lack some infrastructure facilities, the railway sources told the BiharTimes that such communication gap can take place. But this is the rarest of rare incident, he added.

Meanwhile, NDA workers staged a protest demonstration at Sasaram station on Friday to press for their demand to extend the service of Patna-Dehri Inter-City Express to Sasaram. This new train is going to be inaugurated later this month.

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