<p>The fire at Madhya Pradesh’s Itarsi railway station will largely affect train services from all routes, a railway spokesperson said on Thursday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Railways has cancelled 72 trains and diverted a further 61. “The damage is severe and it may take several days to restore,” Railway spokesperson Anil Kumar Saxena said.<br /> <br />Fire broke out in Route Relay Interlocking (RRI) room at Itarsi on Wednesday causing extensive damage to operational panel, indication panel and the entire wiring. A substantial number of relays have been damaged in the fire, besides the signalling relay room system. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. <br /><br />Signalling Relay Room system is a panel of electrical devices to manage signals and points of crossings to change routes at a junction station. They are centrally operated from a cabin. Damage to the system in Itarsi, a major junction, paralysed services from several important destinations. <br /><br />“It is a critical junction on Bombay-Bhopal, Bhopal-Nagpur and Bombay-Jabalpur-Allahabad route,” Saxena said. “It deals with about 75 Mail, Express and passenger trains every day”.</p>
<p>The fire at Madhya Pradesh’s Itarsi railway station will largely affect train services from all routes, a railway spokesperson said on Thursday. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Railways has cancelled 72 trains and diverted a further 61. “The damage is severe and it may take several days to restore,” Railway spokesperson Anil Kumar Saxena said.<br /> <br />Fire broke out in Route Relay Interlocking (RRI) room at Itarsi on Wednesday causing extensive damage to operational panel, indication panel and the entire wiring. A substantial number of relays have been damaged in the fire, besides the signalling relay room system. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. <br /><br />Signalling Relay Room system is a panel of electrical devices to manage signals and points of crossings to change routes at a junction station. They are centrally operated from a cabin. Damage to the system in Itarsi, a major junction, paralysed services from several important destinations. <br /><br />“It is a critical junction on Bombay-Bhopal, Bhopal-Nagpur and Bombay-Jabalpur-Allahabad route,” Saxena said. “It deals with about 75 Mail, Express and passenger trains every day”.</p>
