Restoration of railway track begins in Guntur

Guntur: The railway track restoration works at Dhulipalla are on full swing and the railway department is expecting restoration of train services after three days.
Nearly one kilometer length of railway track was washed away on Thursday due to flash floods at Dhulipalla, five kilometers from Sattenapalli.

Besides this, floodwater overflowed on the railway track at 15 places overflowed between Reddigudem-Sattenapalli and Bellamkonda-Reddi-gudem-Piduguralla in five places which forced the cancelation of train services between Hydera-bad/Secundrabad-Guntur section.

The railway officials on Friday rushed to Dhulipalla and started the retoration of the railway track. The locals of adjacent villages joined as daily workers for the restoration work. As many as 40 earthmovers and other equipment was pressed into the action. However, three earthmovers were stuck in the mud during the work.

The railway department officials said that the restarting of the rain will disturb the restoration work and they are hopeful of restoration of the railway track in the next three days if there is no rain.

 A control room has been started in the Guntur railway station to give information about the cancellation, re-route and restoration of trains. The railway officials appealed to public to contact 9701379072 and 0863-2222014 for information on diversion and cancellation of trains  and 9701379073 for the scheduled timings of the trains in the region.