The North East Frontier Railway has cancelled, short-terminated, diverted and regulated several trains from Thursday due to construction work on the new broad gauge line between New Coochbehar and Golakganj stations.
NF Railway Chief Public Relations Officer S Hajong said here today that the changes have been made from November 3 to November 11 due to non-interlocking work at New Coochbehar and Golakgunj for the proposed commissioning of the new broad gauge line between New Coochbehar and Golakganj.
Trains to be cancelled include New Jalpaiguri-Bongaigaon-New Jalpaiguri Passenger, New Jalpaiguri-Bamanhat Passenger, Bamanhat-New Jalpaiguri Passenger, New Jalpaiguri-Alipurduar Junction-New Jalpaiguri Intercity Express.
The trains to be diverted or short-terminated include Sealdah-New Coochbehar Uttarbanga Express which will be diverted to run via New Jalpaiguri-Siliguri Junction up to Alipurduar Jn instead of its original route via New Jalpaiguri - RaninagarJalpaiguri up to New Coochbehar and will terminate at Alipurduar Jn.
Accordingly, New Coochbehar-Sealdah Uttarbanga Express will originate from Alipurduar Jn instead of New Coochbehar and will run via Siliguri Jn-New Jalpaiguri instead of via Raninagar Jalpaiguri - New Jalpaiguri.
Malda Town-Coochbehar DEMU Passenger leaving Malda Town will be short-terminated at New Jalpaiguri and will remain cancelled between New Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar.
Coochbehar-Malda Town DEMU Passenger will originate from New Jalpaiguri instead of Coochbehar, Sealdah/Raninagar Jalpaiguri-New Alipurduar Link Teesta Torsa Express scheduled to leave Sealdah will be diverted to run via New Jalpaiguri - Siliguri Jn up to Alipurduar Jn instead of its original route via New Jalpaiguri.
Link Teesta Torsa Express will originate from Alipurduar Jn instead of New Alipurduar and will run via Siliguri Jn-New Jalpaiguri instead of via New Coochbehar- Raninagar.
The trains likely to be regulated at various stations during that period include Delhi-Dibrugarh Brahmaputra Mail, Howrah-Dibrugarh Kamrup Express, Dibrugarh-Chennai Egmore Express leaving Dibrugarh, Lalgarh-Guwahati Avadh Assam Express and Barmer/Bikaner-Guwahati Express.