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Mangalore
By Our Staff Correspondent
MANGALORE, NOV. 12. From Saturday, the Chennai-bound West-Coast Express from here will run as an express train as in the past. The train was upgraded to a super-fast service on September 1, and this reduced the running time to 15 hours and 45 minutes. From Saturday, the journey will take 18-and-a-half hours. The old schedule was restored to the train that left Chennai Central at 11 a.m. today and is expected here at 5.30 a.m. on Saturday. The train will leave here at 9.15 p.m. and reach Chennai the next day at 3.35 p.m.
Pressure from MPs
Southern Railway authorities decided to revert to the old timings following representations from MPs from Kerala to the Railway Board. Ananatharam, Chief Passenger Traffic Manager, Southern Railways, told The Hindu that there were widespread protests against the decision to speed up the train, especially from passengers groups in Kerala. Their grouse was that the move had brought about a change in the timings of the Trichy-Mangalore Link Express. Mr. Anantharam said the general feeling was that passengers in Malabar had lost the services of a daytime passenger train. The MPs had urged the Railway Board to start two additional trains on the Mangalore-Shoranur route as a replacement. He said the Southern Railway authorities told the board that this was difficult as the route was overused by 150 per cent. The doubling work on the Shoranur-Kozhikode section also came in the way. Pointing out that the doubling work was likely to be completed by the yearend, he said the residual work was likely to be finished by early 2005. The Southern Railways proposed to upgrade the West- Coast Express again to a super-fast service once the work was completed, as the additional trains could be introduced. A senior Southern Railway official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the decision to revert the train back to an express service was retrograde and Southern Railways had no say on the matter as the matter was decided at the highest levels.
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