Train service resumes on Srinagar-Banihal track after 105 days
Srinagar/UNI: Train service on Srinagar-Banihal track was resumed on Sunday after remaining suspended for 105 days due to security reasons post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the state into Union Territories.
The service on the route was resumed, a day after successfully conducting trial run on Saturday, a railway official told UNI.
However, only one train will run on Sunday on the track in the afternoon. ''From Monday the train service will run normally,'' he added.
A senior Railway police official said that all security arrangements are in place. ''Railway police and district police and other security agencies are working in close coordination to provide proper security to passengers,'' he said.
Train service on Srinagar-Badgam-Baramulla in north Kashmir track was resumed on November 12.
Train service was suspended as a precautionary measure from Baramulla in north Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region via central and south Kashmir on August 5.
Since there was no major untoward incident and following improvement in the situation, the Divisional administration in Kashmir directed railway department to start the suspended train service from November 11.
However, railway department conducted trail run on November 11 on Srinagar-Badgam-Baramulla in north Kashmir and finally started train service from November 12. The department said for security reasons only two trains each will run from Srinagar and Baramulla between 1000 hrs and 1500 hrs only.
The number of passengers who availed the train service was very less as compared to before August 5.
The department conducted successfully trail run of train from Srinagar-Anantnag-Qazigund in south Kashmir to Banihal in Jammu region on Sunday.
The train will leave Srinagar at 1230 hrs, they said, adding that same train will return from Banihal.
Due to suspension of the train service, the railway department has suffered a loss of over Rs three crore.
Train service is very popular in the valley as it is being considered very economic, safe and fast against other mode of transport.
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