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EMU train services from Tambaram to Chennai Beach affected

Chennai, Feb 24 (UNI) EMU Train services to Chennai Beach from Tambaram were affected for more than two hours, when a lorry crashed through a compound wall and got caught in the railway track near Saidapet station today.

Railway Protection Force (RPF) sources told UNI that the lorry HAS BEEN removed from the track and through traffic restored around 1215 hrs.

The lorry, with its cleaner AT the wheel, was stranded on the track for nearly two hours, affecting traffic and causing hardships for the morning office-goers.

The cleaner mistook a small opening made for construction works near the Srinivasa Theatre, as a road, and drove the vehicle, only to crash into the compound wall.

As he could not control the vehicle, the lorry ran amok and climbed on to the track, where the trains to Beach from Tambaram run.

The EMU train services to Chennai Beach were operated on the mainline to reduce the delay, the sources added.

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