Trains to fog-hit Delhi running up to two days late

January 08, 2013 11:00

Sudhir Kumar was to appear for a job interview in Delhi on Monday. To make sure he arrived well in time, the resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar had booked himself in a train that was to reach Delhi on Saturday.

But the Bhagalpur Garib Rath that he boarded had not arrived in Delhi till Monday morning. The railway websites aid the train was 48 hours behind schedule. Like Kumar, the schedules of thousands of passengers have been thrown totally off-track across fog-hit north India and beyond. The delays this season have been more severe then previous years, exposing the railways' inability to deal with the situation. Moreon the TOI

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