27 Trains Cancelled, 22 Trains, 25 Flights Delayed Due To Fog

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New Delhi, Dec 31: Train and air services continued to be badly affected due to fog  in and around Delhi till early Saturday morning.

A Northern Railway press release said, 27 trains have been cancelled, 12 others partically cancelled, and 22 trains are running late due to fog in the national capital region.

Trains cancelled include Jharkhand Swaran Jayanti Exp, Ujjaini Express, Janata express, Garhwal Exp, Allahabad-Haridwar Exp, Varanasi-dehradun Exp, Prayagraj-Bareilly Exp, Lucknow-Chandigarh Exp, Jaipur-Amritsar Exp, Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Amritsar Inter City Exp, and Kalindi Express.

Sealdah-Jalianwala Bagh Exp is running late by 20 hours, while Delhi-Alipurduar Sikkim Mahananda exp is running late by 17 hours.

PTI adds:  Dense fog enveloped the IGI Airport here this morning, delaying around 25 flights.

Fog started to descend over the airport in the wee hours due to which runway visibility dipped to less than 100 metres on the main as well as on the other runways.

Since the visibility was less than the required minima of 125 metres and 15 metres, flights could not take off.

But as soon as the visibility improved around 6 AM, flight operations resumed, according to an airport official.

Yesterday, around 400 domestic and international flights were affected as dense fog enveloped the airport, reducing the visibility to less than 50 metres for more than 7 hours.

A total of 41 flights were cancelled, 322 were delayed and 30 were diverted due to fog.