In photos: When hills came crashing down to bury trains and tracks at New Haflong Railway station, snap roads in Assam’s Dima Hasao district

Condition of Lumding end of New Haflong Railway station on May 23, nine days after heavy rains and landslides on May 14 and 15 threw life out of gear in Assam's Dima Hasao district. Landslides caused dislocations of the Lumding-Silchar Broad Gauge line at 53 locations snapping the vital rail link to the hill district and Barak valley in Assam and neighbouring states of Tripura, Mizoram and Manipur.

Devastation caused by landslides at New Haflong railway station raises quesions over safety of railway passengers over constructions without adequate safegurds

Two locomotives still buried under debri on May 23 poses tough challenges to Northeast Frontiner Railway authorities for train operations in hills section

The scale of devastation raises questions over planning and execution of the Broad Gauge Conversion of Lumding-Silchar railway line and new alignment of 31 km.

Tunnel No 9 ( earlier Tunnel No 10) - the longest tunnel on Lumding Badarpur Hills section

A catstrophe that was waiting to happen for faulty railway planning

Heavy landslides destroyed houses and displaced thousands in Dima Hasao district

Landslide and erosion just in front of the main entrance of the New Haflong Station

Heavy landslides between Haflong and lower Haflong along Lanka-Haflong road

Devastation at Gilgal village adjacent to Muolhoi village of Haflong. More than 65 houses affected. Photograph showing a new house under construction collasping

Thousands displaced in Dima Hasao district as landsldies that followed heavy rains destroyed large number of houses whoc have been sheltered in relief camps

A view of the New Haflong Station on May 23

A view of the Platform Number 1 of the New Haflong Station on May 23

Approach road to New Haflong Station being cleared on May 23

Silchar end of the New Haflong station on May 23

Photos and Text : Anup Biswas

Anup Biswas is a Senior Journalist based in Haflong, the headquarter town of Dima Hasao district and has been reporting on the hill district for over three decades. He can be reached at [email protected]