Assam hill section rail link restored

The vital rail link between Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley and Barak Valley, which had remained suspended for 107 days following an accident that pulled down a crucial bridge in North Cachar Hill district, has reopened.

The rail link between Lumding in the Brahmaputra Valley and Badarpur in the Barak Valley, which is popularly known as the Hill Section, was snapped when a bridge between Dihakho and Mupa, at a distance of 52 km from Lumding, was badly damaged as two locomotives and seven wagons of a goods train fell off on June 25. Seven persons, including a locomotive driver, were killed.

Northeast Frontier Railway CPRO Trikalagya Rabha said though the bridge has been repaired, the authorities would only run goods train on it for the next 10 days.