woensdag, april 04, 2007

Malang-Surabaya railway services halted

PASURUAN, East Java (Antara): All Malang-Surabaya railway services have been halted after a section of railway tracks in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java was inundated by hot mudflow that has been coming out of Lapindo Brantas drilling operations.

Meanwhile, all trains serving Surabaya-Banyuwangi route have to take different routes to avoid the inundated section of the railway track, Harijanto, a local railway company official, said on Tuesday.

Harijanto said other activities that had been disrupted because of the incident.

He said practically the container train that carried around 40 containers a day had stopped operation.

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