#RRI Itarsi news
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RRI at Itarsi, which caught a massive fire on 17/06/15 and affected train operations in a big way bringing down the efficiency of the yard by around 50 % was restored today at 2 50 pm. Itarsi is a four directional junction yard which sees about 145 train mail express & pass train movements daily & about 50-60 freight trains passing. Due to the fire at Itarsi Panel the route relay interlocking suffered damage and Non-interlocked manual working was resorted to for about 34 days.
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more... with the staff and officers working round the clock to set it right, the RRi was restored today , more than 48 hours before the targeted date set. the magnitude of work was huge. 600kms cable and 150 location boxes were laid in the yard; 420kms cable,and 9000 relays were laid indoors along with soldering of 3 lakh wires.
Approximately 2404 trains were cancelled, 17 trains short terminated and 259 trains diverted out of the total 5016 trains scheduled via Itarsi.
There was a huge loss of railways and great inconvenience to the passengers.
Train movements are likely to be normalized wef 22.07.15.
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