{"id":495834,"date":"2022-06-03T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495834"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T05:45:52","slug":"indian-railways-plans-to-restore-dhanushkodi-rail-link-washed-away-in-cyclone-of-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-railways-plans-to-restore-dhanushkodi-rail-link-washed-away-in-cyclone-of-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Railways plans to restore Dhanushkodi rail link, washed away in cyclone of 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways is planning to restore the Dhanushkodi rail link which was washed away in a cyclone on December 23, 1964. The cyclone washed away Indian Railways\u2019 Rameswaram \u2013 Dhanushkodi rail track along with a train as well as other infrastructure, leaving more than 100 people dead and also halting the train service that provided a vital link via sea between Mandapam, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka just 18 kilometres away. According to a PTI report, 58 years on, the Railway Ministry has drafted a proposal for the reconstruction of the Dhanushkodi station as well as restoring the infrastructure that was destroyed during the cyclone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Railways is planning to restore the Dhanushkodi rail link which was washed away in a cyclone on December 23, 1964. The cyclone washed away Indian Railways\u2019 Rameswaram \u2013 Dhanushkodi rail track along with a train as well as other infrastructure, leaving more than 100 people dead and also halting the train service that provided a vital link via sea between Mandapam, India, and Colombo, Sri Lanka just 18 kilometres away. According to a PTI report, 58 years on, the Railway Ministry has drafted a proposal for the reconstruction of the Dhanushkodi station as well as restoring the infrastructure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,264,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}