Landslides affect rail movement on Mangaluru-Bengaluru route

Our Bureau Updated - August 06, 2019 at 05:23 PM.

Two trains have been partially cancelled

The South Western Railway zone has announced the partial cancellation of two trains due to landslip between Shiribagilu and Subramanya Road stations on the Mangaluru-Bengaluru railway route.

A press release said that incessant rainfall, between Shiribagilu and Subramanya Road stations, since Sunday evening had led to landslide.

Restoration work on the tracks is underway.

The release stated that a total of 213 millimetres (mm) of rainfall was recorded since Monday in the ghat section on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru railway route.

Published on August 6, 2019 11:53