After almost a month, Tatanagar railway station sees a flock of Mumbai-bound passengers. Picture by Bhola Prasad

Jamshedpur, Aug. 24: Elation and relief was writ large on the faces of the passengers of the Howrah-Kurla Express (3030 UP), which started its journey after an interval of nearly a month.

All Mumbai-bound trains, including the Howrah-Kurla Express, had been cancelled since July 29 after the train tracks were damaged in heavy rains.

Shankar Sanyal, an inhabitant of Western Maharashtra, was finally making a homeward journey after being stuck in the steel city for nearly a month.

?I came to Jamshedpur nearly a month ago for office work. I can?t wait to go back to Mumbai to see how the city looks after the downpour. My family is in Mumbai. Thankfully, they are safe and sound,? Sanyal, an employee of Mahendra and Mahendra in Mumbai, told The Telegraph.

Riaz Alam was another passenger on the train whose makeshift leather shop in Mumbai was washed away by the rains. He said: ?My friends told me it?s the worst rainfall they have ever seen. I have been doing some leather-related business for some time. The rainfall has washed away my leather outlet too.?

Raj Kishore Saho, another passenger on Mumbai-bound train, was peeved with South Eastern Railway for cancelling the train for about a month. ?The officials should have started the trains much earlier. They kept postponing the journey for all the wrong reasons. The passengers, as a result, have suffered the most,? Saho, a resident of Orissa, said.

Licenced coolies have also felt the pinch of the Mumbai downpour. ?Passengers are the only source of income. So we suffer a great loss if they desert the station,? said Asarfi Ram, who has been working in the Tatanagar railway station for the last five years.