Chennai floods: List of cancelled trains from Chennai on Friday by Indian Railways; Southern Railway’s Chennai Beach – Hyderabad train will leave o­n 04.12.2015 at 16.00 hrs

Chennai floods – List of cancelled trains from Chennai: Chennai floods are causing misery across the city. While Friday has brought respite from rain in most areas, the forecast is that there will be more coming – clearly, it is going to be another night of fear for Chennai rain ravaged citizens.

Rains stop in Chennai on Friday, life still difficult

Life for people in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai continue to be difficult though the rains have stopped in the capital.

On Friday, Many areas in Chennai still remain under water and supplies of essentials was difficult, said residents.

“Water logging continues to be there. The only mercy was that there were no rains,” said Viswanath, a resident.

The water flow in Adyar river has come down and the amount of surplus water was released into the river from the Chembarambakkam lake.

The Southern Railways have announced special trains to Tirunelveli, Rameswaram and Howrah from Chennai Beach station.

The power supply was restored in the areas where water has receded, but it was still cut in many other places.

However, communication lines — landline and mobile — continue to disrupt.

In heavily flooded areas like Mudichur and Tambaram, people were looking up to the skies praying for the rains to stop, and for relief materials.

On Wednesday night the steady and continuous rainfall kept people in Tamil Nadu’s capital awake due to concerns over the rising water levels and threat of floods, as is clear from Revathi Vasan’s, resident of west Mambalam, response. “Water came into our apartment and we had to shift to our neighbour’s house on the first floor”. Another family living on the ground floor has also shifted with us, Revathi added. While the residents are living in fear, others heading into Chennai or out of it are facing a set of their own problems. Here aside from the human interest story, we provide an Indian Railways trains cancelled in Chennai list (at bottom of page) as well as Chennai Corporation helplines as on Friday:

“It indeed is alarming,” Chennai-based lawyer Elangovan told IANS, adding that thousands of people were fleeing the city that has been virtually cut off after highways and railway tracks came under water and the airport was ordered shut till December 6.

“The situation in Tamil Nadu is alarming. It is not an exaggeration to say that Chennai has turned into an island,” Rajnath Singh said.

“I have had no drinking water and milk since yesterday (Wednesday),” Harish Rao told IANS from his house in south Chennai.

Surinder Singh, a doctor from Delhi who was stuck in Chennai, told IANS: “It looks like the entire city is under one foot of water. In some places, the water level is more. Flood water has reached almost every locality, including posh areas. Everyone on the streets is barefoot.”

People living at higher levels were opening up their doors to help the strangers.

“The situation was bad and the water level was increasing,” Jenson, resident of Sunambu Kolathur of Kanchipuram district said.

Even market areas like Anna Nagar in the city could not escape from flooding.

In many areas people made shift boats by tying up empty barrels to reach safer places.

The airport was closed Tuesday night, and could not start operations due to water logging in the runway. Several passengers were stranded at the airport, railway and bus stations.

There was no power supply in many areas of Chennai, and mobile phone services were also affected due to the rains.

Meanwhile hotels were getting frantic calls from residents and stranded passengers for accommodation.

“We have couple of families staying with us as they were affected by water logging,” a hotel official said.

“In Villivakkam area the water level was up to my chest. I had to wade through the water for couple of kms and then catch a bus to my work place in Teynampet,” Suresh who works with a private sector company said.

It was raining opportunities for taxi and auto-rickshaw drivers who were charging sky high rates to ply short distances.

A taxi driver charged Rs 4,500 to transport three persons from airport to a hotel in Anna Salai.

Meanwhile, army and navy teams were called to carry out rescue efforts.

Schools and colleges were closed in the city.

The rains stopped on Wednesday morning and provided some respite to the people, but the weather office has forecast heavy rains for next three days.

During the last spell of rains, around 180 people lost their lives in the four district of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Cuddalore and Thiruvallur.

CANCELLATION OF TRAIN SERVICES ON 01.12.2015, 03.12.2015 and 04.12.2015

CHENNAI BEACH – ARAKKONAM -CHENNAI BEACH SUBURBAN SERVICES
1.Train No 11014  Coimbatore – Mumbai LTT (Kurla) Express Scheduled to leave Coimbatore at 08.45 hrs o­n 04.12.2015 is Rescheduled  to leave Coimbatore at 14.00 hrs o­n 04.12.2015 due to late running of pairing train.
2. Suburban Train Services running between Chennai Beach – Arakkonam-Chennai Beach Section, 24 services as per the table below.

PASSENGER SPECIAL TRAIN ON 03.12.2015 &04.12.2015

PASSENGER SPECIAL TRAIN on  04.12.2015
1.One Passenger Special Train  from Chennai Beach – Hyderabad will leave Chennai Beach  o­n 04.12.2015 at 16.00 hrs via Renigunta,Gudur & Vijayawada.
Stoppages:Tiruvallur,Arakkonam,Renigunta, Gudur,Nellore, o­ngole,Tenali, Vijayawada,  Warangal, Kazipet & Secundrabad.
Composition:  IAC – 1,AC 2-tier 2, AC 3-tier – 2, Sleeper Class – 10, General
Coach – 3 & Luggage-cum-brake van – 2 coaches.

“139” RAILWAY ENQUIRY NUMBER RESTORED
Due to heavy rains and subsequent power failure Railway Enquiry 139 was down  on 02.12.2015. Now the service is restored  and functioning for passengers Enquiry.

PASSENGER SPECIAL TRAIN on  03.12.2015
1.One Passenger Special Train No 02760  Hyderabad –Chennai Beach will leave  Hyderabad o­n 03.12.2015 at 22.45 hrs via Gudur,Renigunta and  arrive Chennai Beach at 14.15 hrs o­n 04.12.2015.

South Western Railway cancels trains
Bengaluru: South Western Railway today said three trains have been cancelled on account of water overflowing at Chennai Division of Southern Railway.

The trains cancelled include – Train No 02509 Bengaluru Cantonment – Kamakhya Suvidha Weekly Special Express that was to leave Bengaluru Cantonment at 10.15 hrs on tomorrow, the statement said.

The other two trains are Train No 15902 Dibrugarh – Bengaluru City Express of December 4 and Train No 15901 Bengaluru City – Dibrugarh Weekly Express of December 7.

Tata-Allepy express cancelled due to Chennai floods
Jamshedpur: In view of the flood situations in Chennai, the South Eastern Railway today cancelled Tata-Alleppey Express.

Due to incessant rains and flood in Chennai, Tata-Alleppey Express, the only daily express train linking the southern states with this part of the country, will remain cancelled today, said O P Sharma, Station Superintendent of Tatanagar.

The Dhanbad-Alleppey express will also remain cancelled today for the similar reason, the superintendent added.

Diversion/Cancellation of Trains
Diversion of Trains
1.Train No 02510 Kamakhya – Bangalore schedule to arrive at Chennai Central o­n 03.12.2015 is diverted via Gudur, Renigunta ,Melpakkam.
2 . Train No 02509 Bangalore – Kamakhya  Exp scheduled to arrive at Chennai Central o­n 04.12.2015 is diverted via Melpakkam, Renigunta and Gudur.
The following  Special trains are Cancelled

Train No 06122 Trivandrum – Chennai Central Special schedule to arrive Chennai central today(03.12.2015)  is short terminated at Arakkonam.
Train NO 06123 Chennai Central – Trivandrum special  o­n  03.12.2015  will  leave from Arakkonam at 16.15.hrs.

CANCELLATION OF SUBURBAN SERVICES&PASSENGERS SPECIAL TRAINS

The following suburban services will not be operated today in the following sections until further advice :

1. Chennai Beach-Tambaram-Chengalpattu-Tirumalpur
2. Chennai Central-Tiruvallur-Avadi-Arakkonam-Tiruttani
3. Chennai Central-Gummidipoondi-Sullurpeta
4. Chennai Beach-Gummidipoondi-Sullurpeta

However, Skeletal services  will be operated in the following routes:
1.Gummidipoondi-Ennore
2.Chennai Beach-Avadi-Tiruvallur-Arakkonam & Tiruttani
3.MRTS service between Velachery-Thirumayilai- Chennai Beach

Running of passenger special train From Chennai Beach with open timings:

1.Passenger special from Chennai Beach to Bangalore via Perambur, Jolarpettai and proposed to departure at 10.00 hrs o­n 03.12.2015.

2. Special Train to Mangalore will leave at 11.30 hrs  on 03.12.2015  from Chennai Beach to Mangalore via Perambur, Jolarpettai & Salem.

CANCELLATION OF TRAINS FROM CHENNAI EGMORE,CHENNAI CENTRAL ON 03.12.2015
Due to Heavy water logging ,the following Express/Passengers trains are cancelled from Chennai Egmore and Chennai Central.

Chennai Corporation helplines:
Regional Office (Tiruvottiyur) – 9445190001
Regional Office (Madhavaram) – 9445190003
Regional Office (Tondiarpet) – 9445190004
Regional Office (Royapuram)- 9445190005
Regional Office (Thiru. Vi. Ka. Nagar) – 9445190006
Regional Office (Ambattur) – 9445190007
Regional Office (Annanagar) – 9445190008
Regional Office (Teynampet) – 9445190009
Regional Office (Kodambakkam) – 9445190010
Regional Office (Valasaravakkam) – 9445190011
Regional Office (Alandur) – 9445190012
Regional Office (Adyar) – 9445190013
Regional Office (Perungudi) – 9445190014
Regional Office (Sholinganallur) – 9445190015

CANCELLATION / DIVERSION /RESCHUDULED OF TRAIN SERVICES ON 02.12.2015

Due to Heavy Rain in Chennai and adjoining areas the Pattern of Train Services as below.

Partial Cancellation / Short Termination

1.Train No 12602 Mangalore – Chennai Central mail o­n 02.12.2015 will be terminated at Salem.

2. Train No 22640, Alappuzha – Chennai Central o­n 02.12.2015 will be terminated at Jolarpetai.

3. Train No 12624 Trivandrum –Chennai Mail o­n 02.12.2015 will be terminated at Tiruvallur.

4. Train No 12686 Mangalore – Chennai Superfast Exp o­n 02.12.2015 will be terminated at Arakkonam.

5. Train No 12696 Triandrum – Chennai Superfast Exp o­n 02.12.2015 will be terminated at Arakkonam.

6. Train No 22637 Chennai Central – Mangalore Exp o­n 03.12.2015 partially cancelled between Chennai Central and Salem and The train will leave from Salem at 16.45 hrs.

7. Train No 12695 Chennai Central –Trivandrum Superfast Exp o­n 03.12.2015 partially cancelled between Chennai Central and Jolarpetai and the train will leave from Jolarpetai at 18.40 hrs.

8. Train No 12711/12712 Vijayawada –Chennai Central –Vijayawada Pinakini Exp o­n 03.12.2015 are partially cancelled between Gudur –Chennai Central-Gudur.

9.Train NO 11027 Mumbai CST – Chennai Central  Mail Scheduled to arrive Chennai Central o­n 03.12.2015 will be terminated at Arakkonam.

10. Train No 11042 Chennai Central –Mumbai CST Exp  o­n 03.12.2015 will leave from Arakkonam at  13.00 hrs .

11. Train No 12608 Bangalore –Chennai Central Lalbagh Exp o­n 03.12.2015 will be terminated at Katpadi.

12. Train No 12607 Chennai Central – Bangalore Lalbagh Exp o­n 3.12.2015 will leave from Katpadi at 17.45 hrs .

13. Train No 12680 Coimbatore – Chennai Central Intercity Exp o­n 03.12.2015will be terminated at Tiruvallur.

14. Train NO 12679 Chennai Central –Coimbatore Intercity Exp o­n 03.12.2015 will leave from Tiruvallur at 15.00 hrs.

15. Train NO 16090 Jolarpetai  – Chennai Central Yelagiri Exp  o­n 03.12.2015 will be  terminated at Tiruvallur.

16. Train NO 16089 Chennai-Jolarpettai Yelagiri Express o­n 03.12.2015 will leave from Tiruvallur  at 18.35 hrs.

DIVERSION OF TRAINS

1.Train No 12509 Bangalore –Guwahati o­n 02.12.2015 is diverted via Melpakkam,Renigunta & Gudur.

2. Train No 15227 Yesvantpur-Muzaffarpur (Weekly) Express o­n 02.12.2015 is  diverted via Melpakkam, Renigunta & Gudur.

The following Trains Scheduled to arrive Chennai Central o­n 03.12.2015 is Diverted via Gudur,Renigunta,Melpakkam,Katpadi.

1.Train No 13351 Tatanagar/Dhanbad-Alappuzha Express

2.Train NO 22642 Shalimar-Thiruvananthapuram(Bi-weekly)Express

3.Train No 12510 Guwahati-Bangalore Cantt  (Tri-weekly)Express

4.Train NO 12296 Pataliputra-Bangalore Sangamitra Express.

5.Train NO 12577 Darbhanga-Mysore(Weekly) Bagmati Express

6.Train NO 12970 Jaipur-Coimbatore(Weekly) Express.

1.Train No 12509 Bangalore Cantt -Guwahati(Tri-weekly) Express Scheduled to arrive Chennai Central o­n 03.12.2015 is diverted via Melpakkam,Renigunta& Gudur.

2.Train No 12897 Puducherry – Bhubaneswar Exp Rescheduled to leave Puducherry    at 18.30 hrs o­n 03.12.2015 is diverted via Villupuram, Katpadi, Melpakkam, Renigunta &Gudur.