The landslides and rockslips had cascaded on the track between Mahur and Phaiding stations from the hillsides of the Barail hill range in the wake of torrential showers, sweeping away the 135-metre track and depositing at least two feet deep mud on it, thus blocking the run of both passenger and goods trains to south Assam districts, Mizoram and Manipur.
A senior NFR official today said from Guwahati over telephone that a new plan was drawn up yesterday to hasten the repair of the track in the next three or four days time.
He said to repair the badly damaged tracks at least 20 wagonload of boulders and new sleepers for the tracks would be needed, which would be hauled up from Guwahati, Jagiroad and Lumding in the next three days for helping to restore the line in a round-the-clock manner.
At least a hundred labourers had been deployed in this massive repair task under the supervision of a senior divisional engineer of the NFR.
This is the first such shut down of train services this monsoon on the 184km-long Lumding-Badarpur track.
The railway engineers said as the Barail hill range is geologically very young, dating back to three million years, its rock formation still continues to be very fragile, and hence prone to landslides.
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