LUCKNOW: Showing excellent coordination, alert railway staff on Saturday helped reunite a family, who were separated after two minors boarded the wrong train.
According to railway officials, at around 10:22 am a passenger Rambarni informed the Deputy Superintendent of Police TundlaThat their children, identified as Radhika (11) and Hari Om (10) have boarded the Puri border with their belongings Nandan Kanan Express Instead of the Kamakhya bound Northeast Super-Fast Express.
Following the alert, Nandan Kanan Express conductor YK Saxena was asked to locate the children in the S2 coach of the train. Meanwhile, the Sub-Punctuality made necessary arrangements to stop the train. Etawah confluence.
On reaching Etawah, the children along with their luggage were dropped off by Deputy Chief Ticket Inspector Lal Bahadur and handed over to the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
Meanwhile, Rambaran reaches Etawah in the Northeast Super-Fast Express and is reunited with his children. “We got confused between Nandan Kanan Express and NorthEast Express, as we were expecting our Kamakhya going train on the platform, but the train going to Puri was on the platform,” Rambaran said.
Nandan Kanan Express was temporarily halted for priority (to pass on to another train). Its scheduled departure time at Tundla Junction is around 10:11 while Northeast Super-Fast Express reaches Tundla Junction at 10:30 AM.
Divisional traffic manager Tundla, Sanjay Kumar said, “It was excellent coordination by the railway staff who took a quick decision and made necessary arrangements to reunite the family.”
According to railway officials, at around 10:22 am a passenger Rambarni informed the Deputy Superintendent of Police TundlaThat their children, identified as Radhika (11) and Hari Om (10) have boarded the Puri border with their belongings Nandan Kanan Express Instead of the Kamakhya bound Northeast Super-Fast Express.
Following the alert, Nandan Kanan Express conductor YK Saxena was asked to locate the children in the S2 coach of the train. Meanwhile, the Sub-Punctuality made necessary arrangements to stop the train. Etawah confluence.
On reaching Etawah, the children along with their luggage were dropped off by Deputy Chief Ticket Inspector Lal Bahadur and handed over to the Railway Protection Force (RPF).
Meanwhile, Rambaran reaches Etawah in the Northeast Super-Fast Express and is reunited with his children. “We got confused between Nandan Kanan Express and NorthEast Express, as we were expecting our Kamakhya going train on the platform, but the train going to Puri was on the platform,” Rambaran said.
Nandan Kanan Express was temporarily halted for priority (to pass on to another train). Its scheduled departure time at Tundla Junction is around 10:11 while Northeast Super-Fast Express reaches Tundla Junction at 10:30 AM.
Divisional traffic manager Tundla, Sanjay Kumar said, “It was excellent coordination by the railway staff who took a quick decision and made necessary arrangements to reunite the family.”