Railway traffic on Central Railway’s (CR) main line was affected after a cavity was formed under rail tracks near Umbermali station near Kasara on Thursday morning leading to a number of trains being affected. 

When asked what exactly went wrong, the railway officials said that it was pre-monsoon preparatory work at the site. “Work of micro-tunnelling to push a pipe structure under the rail tracks that was underway at the site, some 115 kms from CR’s CSMT headquarters, when a cavity was noticed in the embankment at 6:30am,” Shivaji Sutar, CR chief public relations officer said.