Weather Concerns Prompted Indian Railways to Cancel Approximately 1,500 trains on January 29 and 30
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The Indian Railways has planned to cancel around 441 trains on January 29 and 1,006 on January 30 due to the operational difficulties in bad weather. The origin station for 24 trains has been changed to Saturday, while the destination station for 18 trains has been changed to Sunday.
In addition, the Railways has decided to short terminate 25 trains on Saturday and 20 trains on Sunday. Among those cancelled are the 00979 Kisan Special, which runs from Amalsad in Gujarat to Adarsh Nagar in Delhi, as well as the 01541 Satara – Kolhapur and Howrah Jn – Barddhaman routes.
The majority of the cancelled trains connect West Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Assam, New Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. The railways stated that visibility has also been substantially hampered as a result of fog interfering with train operations.
The Indian Railways requested passengers to check the train details before planning a trip. The details are available on the website, https://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/mntes, or the NTES app.
