The Indian Railways has announced the cancellation of 32 trains passing through Visakhapatnam, citing passenger safety due to the Montha cyclone, expected to make landfall on the coast of Kakinada on Tuesday night.
Deepak Rout, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) at East Coast Railway, said that local memos and other trains scheduled to depart on Tuesday have been cancelled. He stated that the list of all cancelled trains will be uploaded on the social media pages of Indian Railways.
“For the Montha cyclone, which is expected to hit Kakinada, we have taken a lot of precautions regarding that. We have cancelled 32 trains passing through Visakhapatnam so that travellers are not affected much. We are trying our best to run the train up to 4 p.m. tomorrow; the local memos and other trains scheduled to depart around tomorrow have been cancelled. The list of cancelled trains has been uploaded to social media and our digital platforms,” Deepak Rout informed the media.
He informed that the Tatanagar-Ernakulam Express has been diverted, and two trains, including the Bhubaneswar-Jagadalpur Express and the Rourkela-Jagdalpur Express, have been short-terminated.
The Cyclonic Storm Montha over the west-central Bay of Bengal has intensified into a severe cyclonic storm and is expected to make landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam, near Kakinada, during the evening or night of Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
See the full list of Cancelled trains
- The Visakhapatnam-Kirandul Express (train number 18515), which was scheduled to depart on Monday, has been cancelled. The Kirandul Express-Visakhapatnam (18516) scheduled to depart on Tuesday has also been cancelled.
- The Visakhapatnam-Kirandul Passenger (58501) and the Kirandul-Visakhapatnam Passenger (58502) have been cancelled.
- East Coast Railway has also cancelled the Visakhapatnam-Koraput Passenger (58538) and Visakhapatnam-Koraput Express (18512) and their respective trains.
- The cancelled trains include the Rajahmundry-Visakhapatnam MEMU (67285) and its respective train, the Visakhapatnam-Kakinada Port Express (17268) and its respective train, and the Visakhapatnam-Tirupati (08583) and its respective train.
- The Visakhapatnam-Guntur Double Decker (22875), Visakhapatnam-Tirupati Double Decker (22707), and Visakhapatnam-Brahmapur (18526) trains, along with their respective pairs, have also been cancelled.
