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CHENNAI: About 25 commuters were stranded successful a metro bid successful the underground passageway betwixt Chennai Central and the Madras High Court stations successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday. The bid stopped midway arsenic the powerfulness proviso to the controlling units was chopped off.
The commuters were made to locomotion done the passageway to the High Court metro station, a video of which went viral, and were safely received by the presumption manager.The incidental occurred successful the bluish corridor of CMRL, connecting Chennai airdrome with Wimco Nagar, betwixt 5.15 americium and 5.45 am. After leaving the Chennai Central underground station, the bid abruptly stopped midway earlier reaching the High Court station.
The bid relation alerted the cognition power country and safely evacuated the passengers arsenic per procedure.
The passageway lights were switched on, and the passengers were counted earlier being taken to the station. They were counted again to guarantee that each passengers were safely retired of the tunnel.CMRL officials said that the controlling portion of the metro trains is operated done batteries. "There are 2 batteries which gully powerfulness from the source. If 1 fails, the different volition enactment arsenic a backup. But some the batteries failed to powerfulness up the power units, truthful the bid stopped.
It is the archetypal clip we encountered specified an issue," said an official.The defective bid was pulled backmost to Chennai Central and parked connected a siding track, arsenic the bid could not beryllium powered up. "It volition beryllium shifted to Koyambedu gait contiguous for further investigation," added the official. CMRL said that mean operations resumed astatine 6.20 am.
