Siliguri, Dec. 15: The toy train
tracks at Tindharia have been relaid soon and service from Siliguri to
Gayabari is set to resume later this month.
“We plan to resume
the service to Gayabari with a big bang. A special train will be
operated from Siliguri Junction till Gayabari (34km) on that day. The
date will probably be December 26. The work of relaying tracks at
Tindharia has more or less been completed. We plan to conduct a trial
run on the newly laid tracks this week,” Arun Kumar Sharma, the
divisional railway manager of Katihar division of Northeast Frontier
Railway, said over the phone from Katihar today.
A landslide at Paglajhora on NH55 in June 2010 disrupted the services from Siliguri to Kurseong.
Although trains
used to run from Siliguri to Gayabari, another landslide on the highway
at Tindharia in September 2011 cut short the service till Rongtong.
Deb escape
Siliguri, Dec. 15: North Bengal
development minister Gautam Deb and two Trinamul Congress leaders had a
close shave when an SUV carrying them skidded off a road and dangled
precariously over a 1,000m-deep gorge on Thorbu Tea Estate near Mirik
this evening.
Two security guards and the driver were in the car too. None of them was injured.
Source: The Telegraph