Thrissur: Passenger loco breaks down

Thrissur: The Guruvayur-Ernak-ulam passenger train suffered glitches at Punkunnam Railway Station on Friday morning after smoke started emanating from its engine.

The engine of the train broke down at 7.45 am and the train was soon shunted off to nearby Thrissur Railway Station after making some adjustments in the engine. The engine was then replaced and passenger left the station at 10.45 a.m. It is the same passenger train that operates as Ernakulam-Alappuzha Passenger.

Due to the glitches in the motor of the engine, the track could not be cleared in time at Punkunnam Station which ended up in the delay of 30 minutes for three major trains passing through the station to south Kerala.

Thrissur Railway Station Manager K.R. Jayakumar said that as there was no other passenger train to Ernakulam side at that time,  permission was given to Chennai-Alappuzha Express to stop in all the stations were the passenger train had stops and the commuters were allowed to board the Express train at Thrissur station.

The two other trains which were delayed due to the issue were New Delhi-Thiruvanathapuram Kerala Express and Nizamuddin-Ernakulam Mangala Express.