Coronavirus lockdown: Uneasy calm hangs over New Delhi Railway Station

Now only 45-50 goods trains pass through the country's second busiest station

The sound of trains grinding to a halt and chugging out of platforms is missing. The announcements over the public address system, the intermittent calls of yatriyon kripaya dhyan dein, are absent. Emptied of its heaving mass of passengers, an eerie calm hangs over the New Delhi Railway Station. But for the occasional sound of freight trains, the station seems lifeless.
 

The 21-day lockdown to fight the outbreak of the coronavirus has turned India’s second busiest railway station (Howrah is the busiest), with an average daily footfall of over 500,000, into a space peopled only by a smattering of railway