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NT Bureau
Chennai, Feb 24:
 

EXTREME CASES : Life inherently is dangerous as it hangs by several vagaries. For these EMU commuters it is more so as the lorry on tracks hit the train services, and life inside those trains that were running was, well, crowded. Photo: B Anand

        EMU Train services to Chennai Beach from Tambaram were affected for more than two hours when a lorry crashed through a compound wall and got caught in the railway track near Saidapet station today.

        Railway Protection Force (RPF) sources said that the lorry was removed from the track and traffic restored around 12.15 p.m.

        The lorry, with its cleaner on the wheels, was stranded on the track for nearly two hours, affecting traffic and causing much hardships for the morning office goers.

        The cleaner mistook a small opening made for construction works near the Srinivasa Theatre, as a road, and drove the vehicle, only to crash into the compound wall.
 

WAITING IS A WEIGHTY BURDEN: The keen sense of impatience waiting for a train, among these people at the Mount railway station, could almost be felt in the air.  Photo: R Giri

        As he could not control the vehicle, the lorry ran amok and climbed on to the track, where the trains to Beach from Tambaram run.

        The EMU train services to Chennai Beach were operated on the mainline to reduce the delay, the sources added.

        But because of it, commuters in the entire stretch had a harrowing time. Last evening too most of them had suffered as bus services towards Tambaram had been hit (owing to traffic regulations for Kalam's visit and commuters had to depend on the EMUs).

        This morning most of them had to depend on the bus as the EMU services were hit.