Indian Railways Update: IRCTC cancels a total of 246 trains were fully and partially cacelled today due to maintenance work, heavy rains, and protests, check details HERE.
IRCTC Update: Indian Railways today (July 17) announced cancellation of several trains due to various reasons. A total of 246 trains were fully and partially cancelled by various Indian Railway zones. While train movements are affected due to maintenance and heavy rains in some states of the country, IRCTC has mentioned that today due to agitation at Secunderabad Railway station against the Agnipath Recruitment Scheme, several passenger train services have been affected drastically.
Due maintenance and other construction work on rail tracks Indian Railways’ Central Railway and Western Railway are conducting Mega block and Jumbo blocks in Mumbai today. However, the special train services will run from Panvel and Kurla during the block. Meanwhile, Delhi-NCR has witnessed heavy rains today which has lead to halts in trains services.
Further, today several incoming trains were regulated/short terminated at Secunderabad today at Cherlapally railway station and other stations. Additional Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police personnel were deployed at Secunderabad station.
Check full list of cancelled trains HERE:
01539 Pune-Satara DMU
01605 Pathankot-Jwalamukhi
01607 Pathankot-Baijnathpaprola
03085 Azimganj Jn.-Nalhathi Jn.
05364 Kathgodam-Moradabad
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Many trains were partially canceleed too due to the above mentioned reasons. However, Railway officials are working to resume the train services as soon as possible.