lucknow several trains came to a grinding halt following the collapse of three grids on tuesday more than 40 trains were held up in northern railway nr while movement of 32 trains was hit in north central railway ncr fiver trains were running late in the north eastern railway while 10 trains were stranded between gaya and mughalsarai in the east central railway ecr the railway services on the affected electrified routes were restored by 430pm in lucknow and allahabad divisions under emergency services on the lucknowkanpur route which is the only electrified stretch of nrs lucknow division neelanchal express okhaguwahati express and three lucknowkanpur memu trains were held up lucknownew delhi shatabdi express was made to run on a diesel engine we did not want to delay the train said a station official the other trains were also made to operate on diesel engines like neelanchal express which was stranded near kanpur the trains which were stranded near major stations were brought to allahabad using diesel engines but the ones stranded at minor stations had to wait said ncr chief public relation officer sandip mathur the trains like moori express kalka mail and jodhpurhowrah express too were stranded ncr set up several helplines at allahabad aligarh mirzapur and kanpur for the kin of passengers stranded at odd stations we also ensured the presence of vendors at the smaller stations so that passengers can buy drinks and food said mathur the entire stretch from mughalsarai to ghaziabad in ncr was hit by the grids collapse the movement of electric trains too was completely disrupted in the mughalsarai division of ecr as many as eight trains are standing at various places between mughalsarai and gaya while two trains are standing at mughalsarai station said adrm mughalsarai ramesh chandra the goods trains were also waiting in the yard for the restoration of power supply since the north eastern railway ner does not have electrified routes it had the minimum impact the division had five trains including jaipurkamakhya express and kanpurchhapra express running late these were the trains we got from adjacent stations said ner chief public relation officer amit singh though the routes had been restored trains were still running late the train operations were gradually getting restored the signalling system was restored quickly and then the trains were made to run said ashwini srivastava sr dcm lucknow nr the station officials however denied that there were any cancellations due to delayed train traffic