SRailway cancels trains owing demolition work of bridge

: Southern Railway Tiruvananthapuram division has cancelled trains to Mumbai following the demolition work taken up on a road over bridge in Mumbai.
Nagercoil-Mumbai CST Express scheduled to leave tomorrow has been cancelled in both the journeys while Kanyakumari-Mumbai -- 'Jayanthi Janatha Express leaving from Kanyakumari on January 8, would ply upto Pune while on the return journey the train would depart from Pune on January 10, an official release said.
Meanwhile, in another release, Chennai City Postmaster General Mervin Alexander said booking of railway tickets has been expanded to eight post offices in the region.
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Meanwhile, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Samastipur,

Sudhanshu Sharma said an inquiry has been ordered into the incident.

He, however, clarified that all the trains were being run with utmost caution as local people had already informed about the Chhath festival to be observed in a pond located near the track.
Yet the devotees may not have heard the horn of the train due to high pitched volume of loudspeakers being played on the occasion, the DRM maintained.
The train services between Samastipur and Darbhanga section on the track, which was blocked by the angry local people protesting with the bodies, resumed after a gap of six hours, he said, adding that protesters had damaged the signal post.

The DRM said that Railway would bear the expense of treatment of the two injured.