MOSCOW. Aug 9 (Interfax-AVN) - One-track train movement has been restored on the Krymsk-Novorossiysk span in Russia's Krasnodar territory badly affected by floods and mudslides, a railway troops official told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
The train movement was restored with the help of two railway troops battalions hard worked all night long to clear the tracks from mud, Colonel Alexander Mironov, chief of the operations group set up by the Federal Railway Troops Service, said. Two passenger trains caught in a trap on the Tunnelnaya terminal were guided to a safe place.
"Only thanks to decisive and energetic actions of railway troops personnel who were working all night to clear the tracks from mud near Novorossiysk, one-track train movement was opened at 10:00 a.m. Moscow time (0600 GMT)," Mironov said.
"The span is only open for technical trains that deliver soil and sand to the Tunnelnaya terminal. The report of Krasnodar brigade commander Colonel Alexander Barsukov says that passenger train movement will be restored at about 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Moscow time (1500 to 1600 GMT) on Friday," Mironov stressed.