New Delhi: 

Himanshu Shekhar Upadhyay, Chief Public Relations officer, Northern Railways, said, "Due to OHE block in Ludhiana yard in connection with station redevelopment work several trains will remain temporarily cancelled, short-terminated, short-originated or change in berthing."

The travellers, who have already booked their advance tickets, are worried a lot because they are not certain that they will get confirmed tickets in fresh ticket booking. As per railways, Ludhiana Junction-Firozpur Cant, Firozpur Cant-Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Chandigarh-Firozpur Cant, and Hisar-Ludhiana Junction will remain cancelled from March 22 to June 29.

Ahead of the summer season, the passenger rush is increasing, while over 300 trips and more than 100 trains Express mail and local trains will remain either cancelled or diverted due to traffic block in Ludhiana of the Sanahawal-Amritsar railway section.

The passengers showed their displeasure as it is expected that the situation will turn grim as regular trains will remain cancelled and special trains will not be run on the same areas. According to Railways, due to upgradation work over 100 trains will be affected because of cancelled, short terminated or change in berthing.

Captain Shashi Kiran, Chief Public Relations Officer, North Western Railway, informed, "Due to some upgradation work several trains will remain cancelled or partial trains cancelled. Between March 23 and June 30, around 300 trips will remain cancelled on various trains."

In addition, over 100 trains will remain either cancelled or diverted at Kanpur Bridge Left Bank-Kanpur Central for a mega block which will impact passengers of various trains of several zones including Northern, North Central, Northern Western, and Southern till April 30. Travellers, who had already booked in advance, are worried after receiving messages from railways about ticket cancellation due to technical work.

Earlier this week, the railways issued norms for the procedure of cancellation and refund of fare with regard to reservation tickets during the disruption of train service. In this regard, the rules regarding the cancellation of reservation tickets for fully cancelled trains are reiterated.

Every year, during the summer season heavy passenger influx is noticed at trains following which Railways have to run special trains to deal with extra passenger rush. But in this situation, regular as well as special trains will not run the same sections.

Rules for e-ticket refund:

In case of tickets booked through an online means e-ticket, the ticket will be cancelled automatically and the full refund of fare will be processed through IRCTC and credited to the concerned bank account.

Rules for PRS ticket Cancellation:

On submission of the same, full fare paid is refundable to the passenger for the entire journey without any cancellation charges.

As per the railway refund rules, in case of full cancellation of a train due to accidents, breaches, floods, bandh or rail rook, in unavoidable circumstances, the reservation ticket booked through the PRS counter should be surrendered at PRS counter of any railway station within 3 days of the scheduled departure of the train.

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