mumbai thousands of passengers were stranded and railway assets worth several crores destroyed at over 21 points in the state largely in the konkan and along the western ghats after extremely heavy rains led to waterlogging rock falls and washing out of tracksthe bhor and thul ghats on the central railway cr routes of titwalaigatpuri and ambernathlonavala bore the brunt konkan railway too was badly affected due to heavy flooding in ratnagiri districtthe intensity of rainfall from midnight can be gauged as kasara received 136mm rainfall in just 4 hours and karjat received 868mm between 1am and 2am said a cr officialservices of over a 100 longdistance trains were affected in cr around 34 trains were cancelled 26 diverted and 42 short terminated we ensured no trains are held up in between stations all the scheduled trains were regulated at stations like kasara igatpuri badlapur khadavali etc said cr spokesperson shivaji sutar konkan railways regulated 9 trains at various stations with nearly 6000 passengers onboard train services are suspended temporarily between chiplun and kamathe stations on konkan railway after water level of vashishiti river bridge in ratnagiri region breached the danger level said a statementinitially curtailed suburban services started on the csmtambarnathtitwala section as stations beyond were inundated at 1035am csmtbadlapur services were restored and extended till karjat by 930pm by 3pm the kalyankasara section was made fit for trafficmost of the disruptions at about 21 locations along cr routes were reported due to waterlogging on tracks washing out of embankments or tracks boulders falling or landslides in ghats and rivers flowing over the danger leveldespite rain cr deployed around 100 personnel including senior officers for repair and restoration especially across mumbai division two boulder special trains 4 ballast rake 2 poclains and 4 jcbs have been mobilised with labourers despite blockage of highways more machines are being deployed at affected sites said sutarthe msrtc came to the rescue of those stranded it operated 133 buses between igatpuri and kasarakalyan and ferried 5800 passengers said transport minister anil parab on the mumbaipune route 65 special buses were operated from pune to mumbai and nine from mumbai to pune to ferry those stranded en routeinputs from somit sen