october 3 the journey that started for 2000 passengers to delhi from bangalore on october 1 continues until today saturday the starcrossed passengers who were travelling in the bangalorehazrat nizamuddin rajdhani express and bangalorenew delhi karnataka express which they had boarded on thursday from the garden city only to get stuck in the flood waters were stranded at raichur until saturday afternoon passengers of the rajdhani were expected to touch secunderabad by saturday midnight and are scheduled to finally touch delhi by sunday midnight a good 43 hours latewith both roads and tracks flooded the south central railway took out its thinking cap and decided to put flyash on the road to make it motorable arranged 15 buses and took all the passengers near chiksugur station on karnataka ap border where an empty train was waiting for them however much like a hurdle race the passengers had to walk 150 metres to reach this empty train carrying heavy luggage on their own south central railway officials said that that 45 gangmen were arranged to help senior citizens and those passengers who had children with them but passengers told toi that this was not correctwhile the empty train was brought for the karnataka express passengers and a gareeb rath was planned to be brought in for those who were travelling in rajdhani officials said that the passengers were by then impatient and boarded this empty train at chiksugur station this special train started from chiksugur at 4 pm and the officials had planned to get this train to secunderabad and then divide the passengers into their respective routesbut this is where they hit the second road block passengers of karnataka express saw no reason to come to secunderabad since many of them had to get off at sholapur kopergaon and manmad it was then decided to arrange an empty rajdhani train from mumbai to sholapur the special train from chiksugur was scheduled to reach sholapur by 7 pm at sholapur passengers of rajdhani will board the empty rajdhani train that has come from mumbai while the passengers of karnataka express will remain in the special train this special train will become karnataka express from sholapur and follow its regular route whereas the rajdhani will take its regular secunderabadkazipetnagpur route an scr official said the train was expected on saturday midnight it takes another 24 hours from secunderabad to reach delhipassengers on board the special train said they were tired and tempers were frayed after 28 hours of travellingthere are small children in the train and no food or water was served after 4 pm complained k r sreenivas editor bangalore mirror a passenger on board the special train which was on its way to sholapur we are being treated as goats and cattle complained supreme court lawyer subhash vasudev also a passengerkarnataka express left bangalore on october 1 thursday at 720 pm and would have reached delhi on october 3 saturday at 1035 am the bangalorenizamuddin rajdhani left bangalore at