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In a freak incident, the Chennai Egmore-Rameswaram Express was halted adjacent Uchipuli Naval Air Station connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) greeting aft the train’s pantograph — a instrumentality connected the extortion of trains that collects powerfulness — got entangled with the overhead instrumentality (OHE).
The explicit bid was halted for implicit 2 hours, and obstruction postulation remained suspended connected the Rameswaram-Ramanathapuram section.
According to a railway source, the pantograph of the engine, which draws powerfulness from the OHE, indispensable beryllium lowered adjacent Uchipuli, arsenic the railway medication has shifted the cablegram underground pursuing a petition from the naval aerial station.
Consequently, the railway medication implemented a caller operational statement for this stretch. In the lack of overhead cables, trains are required to walk done the conception utilizing their ain momentum.
Also, arsenic per operational procedure, the loco aviator is required to little the locomotive’s pantograph portion passing done this agelong and rise it again upon re-entering the OHE section, successful bid to forestall entanglement with the overhead equipment.
“It is not wide whether the loco aviator failed to bring down the pantograph oregon whether a method responsibility failed to little the pantograph. The contented is nether investigation,” a elder railway authoritative told The Hindu.
As a result, Madurai-Rameswaram rider and Rameswaram-Madurai rider trains were partially cancelled betwixt Paramakudi and Rameswaram successful the morning.
Work to reconstruct the OHE is nether progress.
