JOIN USSoon after the Bangalore City - Nanded Express train derailed on Monday morning, railway officials were pressed into action and buses were deployed to ferry stranded passengers.
Around 20 buses brought back 800 passengers to Bengaluru. Passengers of the stranded Hampi Express were sent to Anantpur and by road from there to Bengaluru, said Anil Kumar Agarwal, Divisional Railway Manager, South Western Railways.
Fifteen trains were diverted, eight trains were rescheduled, two cancelled and three partially cancelled. Railway officials cleared the track by 3.20 pm and trains plied normally.
* Diverted
Train No 12736 Yeshwanthpur - Bangalore City Express, Train No 12785 Kacheguda - Bangalore City Express, Train Number 11301 Mumbai CST - Bangalore City Udyan express, Train No 22133 Solapur - Yeshwanthpur Express, Train No 17603 Kacheguda - Yeshwanthpur Express, Train No 16217 Mysuru - Sri Sainagar Shiradi Express, Train No 12591 Gorakpur - Yeshwanthpur Express, Train No 22692 Nizamuddin - Bangalore City Rajdhani Express, Train No 19576 Tuticorin - Okha Express, Train No 12252 Korba - Yeshwanthpur Express, Train No 12628 New Delhi - Bangalore City Karnataka Express, Train No 18463 Bhubaneshwar - Bangalore City Prashanthi Express, Train No 12735 Secundrabad - Yeshwanthpur Express and Train No 17308 Bagalkot - Mysuru Basava Express.n Rescheduled Train No 12736 Yeshwanthpur - Secunderabad Garibrath Express, Train No 18464 Bangalore City - Bhubaneswar Express, Train No 17604 Yeshwanthpur - Kacheguda Express, Train No 22691 Bangalore City - Nizamudding Rajdhani Express, Train No 12592 Yeshwanthpur - Gorakhpur Express, Train No 16571 Yeshwanthpur - Solapur Express and Train No 16594 Bangalore City - Nanded Express.
* Partially cancelled
Train No 16593 Bangalore City - Nanded Express, Train No 16591 Hubli - Mysuru Hampi Express and Train No 16535 Mysuru - Solapur Golgumbaz Express.
* Cancelled
Two trains - No 57438 Hindupur - Guntakal Passenger and No 56503 Bangalore Cantonment - Vijayawada Passenger.