TRAINS AT ANAYARA OVER BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION

There is an over bridge under construction over the railway line at Anayara near Pettah,, Trivandrum, Kerala, India. It is nearing completion. The people at Anayara have been suffering due to the forced dislocation in their movements. As the market is at Pettah they have no option but to cross the double line to make their purchases of daily necessities from the market. Anayara has a heavy concentration of the the middle class and lower middle class. The rich are few here. People cross the double line with fear in their minds all the time. I had to go to the market on Monday the 14th of October 2013 around 6.00 pm. After ensuring that there were no trains I had crossed over. Once the purchases were over I was returning. It was close to 7.00 PM. As I  had approached I saw a train proceeding up north blaring its horn. Once I reached the track I looked at both directions. There were no trains. There were three of us. One was an elderly lady. We crossed the first track from the Pettah side. We were crossing the second track. As we looked to our left we found to our consternation a train silently turning the curve and approaching fast down south. Though struck with fear we ran for our lives. Just as we had climbed over the mount of earth dumped on the path after the track we saw the train passing by. The question is why the train was coming silently without blaring the horn. As the line has been electrified trains run silently. People have no option but to cross the track to meet their needs as the traffic has been closed for almost two years. The work on the over bridge has been going on all these days. There has been several dead lines, the latest being October 2013. But to a lay man like me it is nowhere near completion. Meanwhile common people like me have to cross the track all the time ransoming their lives each time. The trains move merrily but silently. It is a pity people's lives are  left to the vagaries of trains from nowhere hitting  or killing them. Indian Railways have a lot to learn.