CHENNAI: Hundreds of office-goers and other daily commuters faced inconvenience on Tuesday as the railways cancelled 53 suburban trains in the Beach – Chengalpattu section for five hours. Long-distance travellers scheduled to board trains at Central, Egmore and Tambaram were forced to employ cabs and other modes of transportation.
About 5.5 lakh passengers use 265 services in this section. The services were cancelled to facilitate engineering work at St Thomas Mount, between 10.45 am and 3.45 pm. The work involves placing girders on the elevated railway line to extend the MRT S line from Velachery to St Thomas Mount.
