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Ten trains to be introduced

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Frequency of 4 trains to be increased; 32 services to be speeded up

Minister of State for Railways R. Velu releasing the Southern Railway timetable in Chennai on Monday. — Photo: K.V. Srinivasan

CHENNAI: : Introduction of 10 trains, increase in the frequency of four trains and speeding up of 32 services are the highlights of the new Southern Railway timetable released by Minister of State for Railways R.Velu here on Monday.

Southern Railway will operate one more Shatabdi Express between Chennai and Bangalore following good response to the Chennai-Mysore Shatabdi Express. The new service will start from Bangalore in the morning and return in the evening.

Other new trains are the Chennai Egmore-Secunderabad (via Arakkonam, Kurnool, Mahboobnagar and Kacheguda), the Ernakulam-Bangalore (Weekly) Superfast Express, the Madagaon-Mangalore Shatabdi Express, the Yesvantpur-Mangalore Express (via Mysore), the Yesvantpur-Mangalore Express (via Arsikere), the Chennai Egmore-Pondicherry link passenger, the Kumbakonam-Thanjavur passenger and the Tiruvarur-Thanjavur passenger. The date of introduction would be announced later, the Minister told presspersons later. Mr. Velu said Southern Railway would get 346 new coaches this financial year as against 144 coaches last year. These coaches would be utilised for the new trains and for replacing the old ones.

The Chennai Egmore-Tenkasi Podhigai Weekly Express would be made bi-weekly with revised timings to enable passengers reach Tenkasi early in the morning. The train would be extended to Shenkottai after the completion of gauge conversion work from Tenkasi to Shenkottai. The trains to be extended were the Coimbatore-Thanjavur Jan Shatabdi Express and the Mysore-Thanjavur (to Kumbakonam), the Chennai Egmore-Erode Express (via Tiruchi to Coimbatore) and the Chennai Visakapatnam Express (to Bhubaneswar). Mr. Velu said the running time of 32 express trains were reduced by 10 to 100 minutes because of the strengthening of tracks. These included the Chennai-Alleppey Express, the Chennai-Mangalore Mail and the West Coast Express, the Howrah-Kanyakumari Express, the Kanyakumari-Nizamuddin Tirukkural Express, the Chennai-Erode Yercaud Express, the Chennai-Thoothukudi Pearl City Express, the Chennai-Madurai Pandiyan Express, the Chennai-Tiruchi Rockfort Express, the Chennai-Bangalore Mail, the Chennai-Dadar Express, the Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram Mail, the Chennai-Mysore Kaveri Express and the Tiruchi-Howrah Express.

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