Due to a traffic block on the Adra Division of the South Eastern Railway, several train services will be affected on July 6th and 7th. Some trains will be cancelled, some will have their routes changed, some will be partially terminated, and some will be partially started. These disruptions will also...
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affect passenger trains passing through Kodarma. The affected trains include: **Cancelled trains:** * 13503/13504 Bardhaman-Hatia-Bardhaman MEMU Express (July 7th) * 18019/18020 Jhargram-Dhanbad-Jhargram MEMU Express **Trains with changed routes:** * 13351 Dhanbad-Alleppey Express (Chandrapura-Barkakana-Muri, July 7th) * 12818 Anand Vihar Terminal-Hatia Express (Tori-Lohardaga-Ranchi, July 6th) * 02831 Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Special (Chandrapura-Barkakana-Muri, July 7th) * 12802 Puri-New Delhi Express (Puruliya-Anara-Bhojudih-Gomo, July 6th) * 12801 New Delhi-Puri Express (Gomo-Bhojudih-Anara-Puruliya) **Partially terminated trains:** * 18013 Howrah-Bokaro Steel City Express (July 7th) will be partially terminated at Adra Station. * 13319 Dumka-Ranchi Express (July 7th) will be partially terminated at Dhanbad Station. **Partially started trains:** * 18014 Bokaro Steel City-Howrah Express (July 7th) will be partially started at Adra Station. * 13320 Ranchi-Dumka Express (July 7th) will be partially started at Dhanbad Station. **Rescheduled trains:** * 12817 Hatia-Anand Vihar Terminal Express (July 7th) will be rescheduled from Hatia by 90 minutes. * 18625 Purnea Court-Hatia Express (July 7th) will be rescheduled from Purnea Court by 120 minutes. * 18639 Ara-Ranchi Express (July 7th) will be rescheduled from Ara by 60 minutes. * 17006 Raxaul-Hyderabad Express (July 7th) will be rescheduled from Raxaul by 60 minutes.

The South Eastern Railway's Adra Division will have a traffic block on July 7, 2024, leading to cancellations, route changes, partial terminations, and reschedulings of various trains. The following trains will be canceled: 13503/13504 Bardhaman-Hatia-Bardhaman MEMU Express, 18019/18020 Jhargram-Dhanbad-Jhargram MEMU Express. The following trains will have route changes on July 7,...
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2024: 13351 Dhanbad-Alleppey Express (via Chandrapura-Barkakana-Muri), 12818 Anand Vihar Terminal-Hatia Express (via Tori-Lohardaga-Ranchi), 02831 Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Special (via Chandrapura-Barkakana-Muri), 12802 Puri-New Delhi Express (via Purulia-Anara-Bhojudih-Gomo). On July 7, 2024, 18013 Howrah-Bokaro Steel City Express will be partially terminated at Adra, while 18014 Bokaro Steel City-Howrah Express will be partially started from Adra. On July 7, 2024, 13319 Dumka-Ranchi Express will be partially terminated at Dhanbad, and 13320 Ranchi-Dumka Express will be partially started from Dhanbad. The following trains will be rescheduled: 12817 Hatia-Anand Vihar Terminal Express (departing from Hatia on July 7, 2024, will be rescheduled by 90 minutes), 18625 Purnea Court-Hatia Express (departing from Purnea Court on July 7, 2024, will be rescheduled by 120 minutes), 18639 Ara-Ranchi Express (departing from Ara on July 7, 2024, will be rescheduled by 60 minutes), 17006 Raxual-Hyderabad Express (departing from Raxual on July 7, 2024, will be rescheduled by 60 minutes).

Due to development work in the Adra division of the South Eastern Railway, several train routes originating from Bokaro Railway Station have been changed and some trains have been cancelled. On July 7th, train routes will be altered due to a 9-hour traffic and power block for construction of a normal...
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height subway between Tupkadih and Rajabera. Additionally, there will be a 9-hour traffic and power block at Bokaro station for installing a pedestrian overbridge girder and a 5.5-hour block for constructing a limited height subway between Purulia and Kotshila. Several trains originating from Bokaro have been canceled, including 18019/18020 (Jhargram-Dhanbad-Jhargram) MEMU Express, 13503/13504 (Bardhaman-Hatia-Bardhaman) MEMU Express, 13319/13320 (Dumka-Ranchi-Ranchi) Express, and 08695/08696 (Bokaro-Ranchi-Bokaro) MEMU Express. Train number 18013/18014 (Howrah-Bokaro-Howrah) Express will terminate at Adra on July 7th. Several train routes have also been changed, including train number 13351 (Dhanbad-Allapuzha) Express, 12818 (Anand Vihar-Hatia Jharkhand Swarnajayanti) Express, 02831 (Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Special) Express, and 12801/12802 (Puri-New Delhi Purushottam) Express. Four trains running through Tatanagar have been cancelled from July 11th to July 15th, including the Tatanagar-Bilaspur Express, Bilaspur-Tatanagar Express, Gondia-Jharsuguda Special, and Jharsuguda-Gondia Special. Two other trains, Tatanagar Itwari (NSCB) Express and Itwari (NSCB) Tatanagar Express, have been short-terminated and originated from Bilaspur respectively.

The South Eastern Railway will be conducting developmental work on the Bokaro-Muri section of the Adra railway division on July 7th, 2024. This will result in a power-cum-traffic block on the line, affecting several trains. Many trains will be canceled, and some will have their routes changed. The Purushottam Express and...
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Tejas Rajdhani Express will have their routes altered. Several trains will be canceled, including the Adra-Barkakana-Adra MEMU Passenger, Dhanbad-Ranchi-Dhanbad Intercity Express, Asansol-Ranchi-Asansol MEMU Special, Ranchi-Bokaro Steel City-Ranchi Passenger Special, Dumka-Ranchi-Dumka Express, Hatia-Bardhaman-Hatia MEMU Express, Kharagpur-Ranchi-Kharagpur MEMU Express, Hatia-Kharagpur-Hatia Express, Hatia-Tatanagar-Hatia Express, Patna-Ranchi-Patna Express, Jhargram-Dhanbad-Jhargram MEMU Express, Bardhaman-Hatia-Bardhaman MEMU Express, Dumka-Ranchi-Dumka MEMU Express, and Bokaro Steel City-Ranchi-Bokaro Steel City Passenger Special. Several other trains will have their routes changed, including the New Delhi-Bhubaneswar Rajdhani Express, Jammu Tawi-Sambalpur Express, Dhanbad-Alappuzha Express, Anand Vihar-Hatia Express, Dhanbad-Bhubaneswar Special, and Puri-New Delhi-Puri Express.

A campaign against overcrowding in reserved AC and sleeper coaches of trains has become a mere formality. While railway officials conduct checks during the day, no action is taken at night, even after receiving information from the control room. Passengers in reserved classes are forced to endure overcrowding with no help...
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from officials. On Saturday night, general passengers occupied reserved coaches on the 12802 Purushottam Express, despite complaints to the control room, no official arrived. Passengers on the 22433 Ghazipur-Anand Vihar Express faced similar issues. The ACM Santosh Tripathi claimed that hourly monitoring and checks are conducted, but the situation suggests otherwise.