In this week, Metro services on the Blue Line were severely affected following the damage of an over-head wire, which led to overcrowding across stations and trains. The incident happened at around 4.30 pm as part of an OHE between Subhash Nagar and Tilak Nagar stations broke. Trains are running on a single line between the two stations.
“This was caused by signaling problem in this train as it reached Model Town station, leading to application of Emergency Brakes, which was behaving erratically as the train moved towards Rajiv Chowk station. This resulted in slow movement of this train leading to bunching of the trains behind on the Line between 8.14 am to 9.10 am,” stated the statement.
Metro trains are designed to be ‘fail-safe’ to ensure safety of the passengers and brakes are applied automatically by the system when such errors occur. In order to avoid further impact on services due to cascading effect, the passengers were de-boarded at Rajiv Chowk station and the train was withdrawn from the service and sent back to the Depot for investigation. Train services on Line-2 became normal from 9.10 am onwards.