KOLKATA: A suicide in north Kolkata and a technical snag in an air-conditioned rake within the south disrupted peak-hour Metro Railway services and products for almost two hours on Wednesday morning.
Around 9.17am, a 58-yearold man jumped in entrance of a Kavi Subhash-bound educate at Dum Dum station. By the time the educate stopped, 3 coaches had passed over the spot the place the man had jumped. Power to the third rail used to be switched off and station group of workers checked below the rake. As it used to be no longer possible to succeed in the man, energy used to be switched on once more and the educate reversed slowly. The man used to be then lifted from the tracks and shifted to R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the place he died soon after.
“The tracks have been cleared at 10.09am and commonplace services and products resumed at 10.16am. A power block takes time as there's bureaucracy concerned within the process. During this period, truncated services and products have been run between Girish Park and Kavi Subhash,” Metro Railway CPRO Indrani Banerjee said.
Services at Dum Dum have been simply resuming when a packed rake from Kavi Subhas entered the Kavi Nazrul station, but its doors refused to open. According to a passenger who used to be in the second one coach, there have been problems with the airconditioning and the lighting fixtures from the beginning.
While passengers claimed that they needed to get off the educate at Kavi Nazrul station in the course of the motorman’s cabin after the doors refused to open, officers said that doors have been opened robotically, and the lengthen befell as commuters refused to vacate the rake.
“When the educate stopped at Kavi Nazrul around 10.15am and the doors didn’t open, I knocked at the connecting door to the motorman’s cabin. After a while, a motorman opened the door. When I asked him why there have been no bulletins, he passed over the public-address system to me and asked me ‘to do the needful’. He then went into the first coach to open the doors, it seemed. Finally, we got off in the course of the motorman’s cabin,” Sabyasachi Pal said.
Banerjee, alternatively, said that the doors of the six coaches have been opened robotically by way of the motormen after their efforts at the consoles failed. “It is part of the motormen’s job to take a look at to open the doors by way of the usage of switches on their consoles after which use keys from throughout the coaches. As the motormen entered the coaches to open the doors with keys, about 20% of the passengers got off through their cabin, but the remaining have been evacuated in the course of the doors of the six coaches. This took place at a station and there used to be no cause for panic and there used to be no hassle in opening the doors robotically,” she said.
“After the doors opened, passengers merely refused to get off. They said that they'd get past due for work and wanted the officers to run the rake as it is. Finally, senior officials needed to go to Kavi Nazrul to persuade the passengers to get off. The strategy of evacuating passengers persevered till 10.58am, after which commonplace services and products have been resumed. The affected rake used to be stabled at Mahanayak Uttam Kumar and despatched to the carshed later,” she said.
Around 9.17am, a 58-yearold man jumped in entrance of a Kavi Subhash-bound educate at Dum Dum station. By the time the educate stopped, 3 coaches had passed over the spot the place the man had jumped. Power to the third rail used to be switched off and station group of workers checked below the rake. As it used to be no longer possible to succeed in the man, energy used to be switched on once more and the educate reversed slowly. The man used to be then lifted from the tracks and shifted to R G Kar Medical College and Hospital, the place he died soon after.
“The tracks have been cleared at 10.09am and commonplace services and products resumed at 10.16am. A power block takes time as there's bureaucracy concerned within the process. During this period, truncated services and products have been run between Girish Park and Kavi Subhash,” Metro Railway CPRO Indrani Banerjee said.
Services at Dum Dum have been simply resuming when a packed rake from Kavi Subhas entered the Kavi Nazrul station, but its doors refused to open. According to a passenger who used to be in the second one coach, there have been problems with the airconditioning and the lighting fixtures from the beginning.
While passengers claimed that they needed to get off the educate at Kavi Nazrul station in the course of the motorman’s cabin after the doors refused to open, officers said that doors have been opened robotically, and the lengthen befell as commuters refused to vacate the rake.
“When the educate stopped at Kavi Nazrul around 10.15am and the doors didn’t open, I knocked at the connecting door to the motorman’s cabin. After a while, a motorman opened the door. When I asked him why there have been no bulletins, he passed over the public-address system to me and asked me ‘to do the needful’. He then went into the first coach to open the doors, it seemed. Finally, we got off in the course of the motorman’s cabin,” Sabyasachi Pal said.
Banerjee, alternatively, said that the doors of the six coaches have been opened robotically by way of the motormen after their efforts at the consoles failed. “It is part of the motormen’s job to take a look at to open the doors by way of the usage of switches on their consoles after which use keys from throughout the coaches. As the motormen entered the coaches to open the doors with keys, about 20% of the passengers got off through their cabin, but the remaining have been evacuated in the course of the doors of the six coaches. This took place at a station and there used to be no cause for panic and there used to be no hassle in opening the doors robotically,” she said.
“After the doors opened, passengers merely refused to get off. They said that they'd get past due for work and wanted the officers to run the rake as it is. Finally, senior officials needed to go to Kavi Nazrul to persuade the passengers to get off. The strategy of evacuating passengers persevered till 10.58am, after which commonplace services and products have been resumed. The affected rake used to be stabled at Mahanayak Uttam Kumar and despatched to the carshed later,” she said.
Suicide, snag hit Metro services for two hours
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