Title - Chennai-Mangalore Express to run every day

MANGALORE: Due to change in the advance reservation period to 120 days, trains 12685/12686 Chennai Central-Mangalore-Chennai Central expresses that is running six days a week will be converted to a daily express starting from August 20 in Mangalore and August 21 from Chennai Central. Train 16043 Puducherry-Mangalore weekly express which departs from Puducherry on Tuesdays will leave on Fridays from August 17, and train 16044 Mangalore-Puducherry weekly express that presently leaves Mangalore on Mondays will leave on Saturdays from August 18.Accordingly, train number 16043 will be renumbered to 16855 from August 17, and train number 16044 renumber to 16856 from August 18.Likewise, train number 12758 Coimbatore-Tirupati tri-weekly express operating on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday will be changed to 22616 from August 17 and train number 12757 Tirupati-Coimbatore tri-weekly that operates on Wednesday, Saturday and Monday will be converted to 22615 from August 18. Train number 12788 Tirunelveli-Bilaspur weekly express operating on Sundays will be renumbered 22620 from August 19. Train number 12787 Bilaspur-Tirunelveli weekly express operating on Tuesdays will be changed to 22619 from August 21.The composition of train 16043/16044 Puducherry-Mangalore-Puducherry weekly expresses will be revised from the above mentioned respective dates of renumbering the trains.

The revised composition of these trains will be one AC two-tier, one AC three-tier, six sleeper class, six general second class and two luggage-cum-brake van coaches.Train 56640/56641 Mangalore-Verna-Mangalore will be augmented with six second class sitting coaches from April 30 at Mangalore and Verna.