Thirty-seven trains on the Beijing-Kowloon Railway were either
delayed or turned back by cave-ins after days of rain.
Railway workers were repairing the railway Wednesday, which had
been damaged by 30 hours of continuous rain in the past two
days.
The cave-ins appeared on the railway's Guangdong
section, causing 26 trains to stop and 11 others to change
routes.
Guangdong's railway group initiated an emergency plan to tackle
the situation. The company mobilized more than 1,200 employees to
work around the clock for emergencies Monday and sent 446
technicians to the cave-in sites Tuesday.
A passenger on the No. 1019 train from Hefei in east China's Anhui
Province to Dongguan in Guangdong said he had waited for about
10 hours on the train as it was stuck in Heyuan, Guangdong.
The railway company also opened three special windows for
affected passengers to refund their tickets and kept broadcasting
latest news about train schedule changes at Guangzhou's railway
stations.
The company reminded passengers to pay attention to broadcast
and notices at railway stations.
(Shenzhen Daily June 23)