Train service in Lumding-Badarpur section suspended

Guwahati, June 23 -- Train services over the Lumding - Badarpur hill section had to be suspended from Monday evening hours after reports of bounders and landmass falling on railway tracks between Lumding - Badarpur hill section.

NF Railway Chief Public Relation officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said this in a statement issued on Monday and added that the train movement had been suspended in order to ensure safety of railway passengers.

He said at least two trains cancelled, and six others short terminated and one rescheduled by the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) on account of boulders along with land mass falling over the railway track in the New Haflong - Jatinga Lampur section owing to improper construction work being undertake...