Hyderabad: Over 2,500 passengers of the Secunderabad-bound Palnadu and Falaknuma Express trains were evacuated mid-way at Bellamkonda in Andhra Pradesh, even as thousands of other passengers were stranded at different railway stations after rains cut off railway links between TS and AP on the Guntur-Macherla section.
The railways cancelled 41 trains for Thursday and Friday and more are in the offing. Flash floods breached railway tracks at seven locations on the Nadikudi-Guntur section of Guntur division.
The trains stranded were the Amaravati Express, Secunderabad-Guntur Intercity Express, Thiruvananthapuram-Hyderabad-Trivandrum Shabari Express, Adilabad-Tirupati Krishna Express and the Repalle-Secunderabad passenger. Terming it as a major disaster, SCR general manager Mr Ravindra Gupta said NDRF teams were reaching the spots where the trains were stranded.
Meanwhile, it was a narrow escape for nearly 1,400 passengers on the Falaknuma Express when the locomotive crew noticed water levels rising on the tracks and stopped the train at Bellamkonda in AP at about 7.35 am. About 1,100 passengers were evacuated from the Palnadu Express at Reddipalem and sent to Secunderabad.
