Snag disrupts CR services

MUMBAI: Services on the Main Line of the Central Railway were disrupted around noon on Monday. Several of the trains headed for CST either had to be diverted to another line or delayed after the dropper wire snapped between Thane and Mulund on the Up fast track. Though many of the locals were bunched up, no cancellation was recorded.The dropper wire connects the caternary and the contact wire, which touches the pantograph wire that powers the train. The catnerary supports it with the help of the dropper wire.

"The incident occurred at 11.45 am and it was a motorman who first noticed the snapped wire. His train was allowed to pass but subsequent locals were diverted to the Up slow line between Thane and Mulund. Our staff rushed to the site and the snag was fixed at 12.18 pm," said CR chief PRO S C Mudgerikar.


The snag, though lasted for only half an hour, caused much distress to commuters. A media executive from Kalyan told TOI, "I took the 11.26 train from Kalyan and reached Thane at 11.45 am. Then, between Thane and Mulund, my train was stranded for 30 minutes. No announcement was made. Many jumped off and walked along the tracks till Mulund from where they took slow locals," he said.