GULBARGA: Passengers of the Okha-Ernakulam express from Gujarat to Kerala were stunned when they saw that their train had reached Gulbarga station in Karnataka on Tuesday. It had been sent on the wrong route at Pune and landed at Gulbarga.The train was on track till 10.30pm on Monday but passengers were alerted at Punwale that due to an accident near Ratnagiri, the train would be diverted towards Pune and then it would reach Wadgaum in Goa via Miraj. But at Pune, the train was mistakenly diverted to Solapur and then to Gulbarga.Passengers were shocked early morning when they saw their train at Solapur station at 6am. They informed the station master at Solapur and were told the train would be diverted at Guntakal to Hubli.Keerthan, a passenger on the train who was supposed to reach Udupi at 11am Tuesday, got down at Gulbarga and took a bus to reach his destination. He said almost 30 passengers in the bus he was travelling, were passengers from the misrouted train.Another passenger Nagaraj said the situation was terrible in the train as there was not a single drop of water in all the toilets. “The train would stop outside the station at every place and we couldn’t even buy bottled water,” he said. Senior citizens and children had a tough time, he added. Nagaraj, an engineer in Surat, was headed to his home town Kundapur in Udupi district in Karnataka.Many North Indians were travelling in the train. At Gulbarga station, the train was stopped 1km from the station. Later, the train was taken to the station where the station master announced refund of the ticket. For tickets booked online, the refund amount will be credited to the passengers’ accounts.The train reached Gulbarga at 11.30am and was parked 1km from the station and later taken to the station. The train was sent back to Pune and then to Wadgaum via Miraj. At 2.30pm, the train was sent back from Gulbarga to Pune.