Delhi Metro services on Blue Line impacted for 90 mins due to snag, commuters face hardship
The Hindu
Many passenger took to Twitter to share the hardship they experienced soon with the snag reportedly caused due to a bird hitting the pantograph of a Metro train
A large number of commuters on Delhi Metro’s Blue Line faced hardship for nearly an hour and a half on Monday as services across the corridor were impacted due to a technical snag, officials said.
Blue Line connects Dwarka Sector-21 in Delhi and Noida Electronic City, along with a branch line to Vaishali.
“Train services between Yamuna Bank and Indraprastha stations of the Blue Line were affected from 6.35 PM to 8 PM today to undertake repair work of a broken contact wire (part of OHE or overhead equipment) on the Up Line (going towards Dwarka) due to some external object (bird) hitting the OHE/pantograph of the train,” the DMRC said in a statement.
The entire Blue Line was impacted in this period due to the snag in the OHE at the Yamuna Bank segment. Trains were run at a slower speed than usual in this duration.
The branch line to Vaishali diverges from the main Blue Line at Yamuna Bank metro station.
Commuters faced hardship and huge swarms of crowd were seen at several stations, particularly at Indraprastha metro station.
Many passenger took to Twitter to share the hardship they experienced soon after the snag was reported.
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