<p>Namma Metro services were disrupted for nearly two hours due to a technical snag on Wednesday afternoon.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A senior official with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) said: “At around 12.47 pm, it was found that cross over of trains could not be done between the tracks at M G Road station. Due to this, train services could not be operated along Reach 1.”<br /><br />Though the BMRCL’s technical team succeeded in restoring operations along single line (between Baiyyappanahalli and M G Road) by 1.17 pm, it was only after 2.10 pm that trains could be operated on both the lines. A majority of passengers, who had bought tickets, were irked and demanded that their ticket money be reimbursed.<br /><br />“Owing to the snag, as many as six trips had to be cancelled between M G Road and Baiyyappanahalli. And we had to refund tickets of 63 passengers,” said a BMRCL official.<br /><br />According to sources in BMRCL, a short interruption in power supply at the M G Road junction could have resulted in the disruption of service. But BMRCL’s Chief Public Relations Officer B L Y Chavan denied there was any power problem and attributed the disruption to a technical snag.</p>
<p>Namma Metro services were disrupted for nearly two hours due to a technical snag on Wednesday afternoon.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A senior official with the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) said: “At around 12.47 pm, it was found that cross over of trains could not be done between the tracks at M G Road station. Due to this, train services could not be operated along Reach 1.”<br /><br />Though the BMRCL’s technical team succeeded in restoring operations along single line (between Baiyyappanahalli and M G Road) by 1.17 pm, it was only after 2.10 pm that trains could be operated on both the lines. A majority of passengers, who had bought tickets, were irked and demanded that their ticket money be reimbursed.<br /><br />“Owing to the snag, as many as six trips had to be cancelled between M G Road and Baiyyappanahalli. And we had to refund tickets of 63 passengers,” said a BMRCL official.<br /><br />According to sources in BMRCL, a short interruption in power supply at the M G Road junction could have resulted in the disruption of service. But BMRCL’s Chief Public Relations Officer B L Y Chavan denied there was any power problem and attributed the disruption to a technical snag.</p>
