Train service resumed on Tuesday after it remained suspended on the first day of 2018 for security reasons in south Kashmir, where five CRPF personnel and three Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militants were killed in a fierce 36-hour-long encounter in Pulwama since wee hours of Sunday.
However, service was not affected and trains chug between Srinagar-Badgam in central Kashmir to Baramulla in north as per schedule on Monday, a railway official told UNI on Tuesday.
He said an advisory was received from police Sunday night to suspend all train runs between Badgam-Srinagar in central Kashmir to Anantnag and Qazigund in south and Banihal in Jammu region.
However, a fresh advisory was received to resume the service on Srinagar and Banihal track via south Kashmir, he said.
The Srinagar-Banihal route remained busiest in terms of number of commuters.