Cyclone Dana: Sealdah division train services to be suspended for 14 hours; find out when

Cyclone Dana: Train services successful the Eastern Railways' Sealdah part volition stay suspended for 14 hours from Thursday nighttime arsenic a precautionary measurement up of Cyclone Dana's landfall, officials said connected Wednesday. The past train, including section trains, to beryllium disposable successful some the northbound and southbound sections of the Sealdah division, volition permission astatine 8 p.m. connected Thursday and the suspension of railways services successful that part volition proceed till 10 americium connected Friday.

Eastern Railways' Chief Public Relations Officer, Kaushik Mitra, said successful a video connection that the trains coming from the stations successful the coastal areas similar Namkhana and Hasnabad, among others, volition not attack Sealdah aft 7 p.m. connected Thursday. He said that the determination is being taken keeping the passengers' information successful mind.

According to him, successful cases that the overhead wires snap, determination is simply a anticipation of trains getting stranded midway erstwhile the interaction of Dana volition beryllium more, which volition beryllium hazardous for the passengers travelling by those trains then.

The authorities medication has asked the tourists astatine coastal tourism hubs similar Digha and Mandarmani to permission those places by Wednesday evening.

Cyclone Dana is expected to marque its landfall determination adjacent Dhamra successful Odisha betwixt 11 p.m. connected Thursday and 5 a.m. connected Friday. Already, airy to mean rainfall has started successful immoderate coastal districts successful southbound Bengal since Wednesday afternoon.

Even the authorities capital, Kolkata, witnessed a spell of showers connected Wednesday afternoon. The 3 coastal districts of East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas, and North 24 Parganas are expected to witnesser maximum and astir dense rainfall arsenic an interaction of the landfall of the cyclone.

Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities has announced precautionary measures fixed the looming crisis. The acquisition institutions successful 9 districts of southbound Bengal are closed from October 23 to October 25. State-level and district-level power rooms person been opened. The fishermen are being barred from going to the heavy sea. The territory administrations person been asked to displacement the radical residing successful the low-lying areas to safer places.