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Srikakulam station to be modernised

VISAKHAPATNAM: Srikakulam railway station will have a new building for accommodating six new terminals of passenger reservation system to decongest the existing station building and provide a better ambience to the travelling public.

By December the platform Nos. 2 and 3 of Cheepurupalli station will be extended from the existing 15-coach to 24-coach fully covered ones to allow passengers in trains with longer rakes convenient boarding and alighting at this station, Divisional Railway Manager N. Kashinath told The Hindu.

New facade

Cheepurupalli railway station will have an all new façade with a new building coming up along with extended platforms and modern passenger amenities to provide a new look to station, he added.

A similar exercise has been taken up at the Srikakulam platform Nos. 1 and 2 so that 24 coaches can be accommodated and other passenger amenities like drinking water and waiting halls improved, which would be part of continuous efforts to improve the passenger facilities, he said.

RoB at Duvvada

The passengers alighting at Duvvada station find it difficult to come to the city side, which would now be modernised with an approach given up to the Road Over Bridge. Once the construction work, which began recently, was completed they could take an auto rickshaw or taxi without difficulty from the western side also.

The platform height was being increased to help people with heavy loads alight easily.

The Indian Railway Board had given its nod for construction of a full-fledged platform on the western side at Duvvada railway station that currently has only three platforms.

\All other amenities would also be provided in a phased manner, he said.

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