Bhubaneswar-Visakhapatnam route were partially affected on
Sunday after a goods train derailed at Palasa under the
jurisdiction of the East Coast Railway Zone, an official said.
Two wagons of a tractor-laden goods train from
Palakkad to Tinsukia jumped off the track at Palasa yard in
Andhra Pradesh, following which a relief train was rushed to
the site from Odisha''s Khurda Road railway station, he said.
Railway officials have reached the spot and
restoration work has started.
Konark special train was controlled at Pundi station,
while two local trains between Visakhapatanam and Palasa and
the Bhubaneswar-Palasa Express were short-terminated, the
official said.
Train movement on the up line, however, is
operational, he added. PTI AAM
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