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Freak power outage plunges CST into darkness

According to officials a 22KV incoming feeder line of Tata Power had tripped leaving the station at the mercy of the emergency circuit supplied by BEST

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A freak power outage at the sprawling CST station plunged the terminus inot semi-darkness at around 9:20 pm on Friday. It took several minutes before the emergency back-up lights could come on, said commuters who were left surprised by the turn of events.

Thankfully train operations on both the suburban as well as the long-distance platforms were unaffected because this has its own dedicated power supply.

"We are yet to find out what caused the power outage. The electrical engineers of CR are working on the problem and we believe the lights will be come on very soon." said a senior CR official.

"It is scary when something like this happens because there station is so crowded that you fear for your safety," said a commuter. Both railway cops and Railway Protection Force personnel were asked to fan out in the station to avoid any untoward incident, said officials.

According to officials a 22KV incoming feeder line of Tata Power had tripped leaving the station at the mercy of the emergency circuit supplied by BEST. This however takes care of only 50 percent of lights, said officials.

"The problem was set right by 9:45 pm and investigation has been instituted into what went wrong," said an official.

In response to the outage, Tata Power officials said that there was no fault in the Tata Power feed to BEST. It was BEST's equipment failure.

They said that the 22 kV Feeder belongs to BEST and it is BEST's maintenance responsible for the said feeder. By no ways and means was Tata Power involved or is responsible. According to Tata Power officials the outage was of 12 minutes which was BEST's responsibility to switch to an alternate feed due to a fault at their feeder. Tata Power-D doesn't supply to the station  as it is being fed from BEST. Tata Power-D only supplies for traction which was unaffected as confirmed with the officials.

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