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Extra coaches to clear passenger rush by railgenie on 15 August, 2013 - 02:58 AM
avatar railgenie Extra coaches to clear passenger rush on 15 August, 2013 - 02:58 AM

With a majority of RTC and private buses staying off the road between Hyderabad and Seemandhra regions due to the Seemandhra employees’ indefinite strike, South Central Railway has decided to attach 84 extra coaches to 16 express trains, including Secunderabad-Tirupati, Kacheguda-Yeshwantpur, Hyderabad-Narsapur and others from August 12 to 20.

SCR authorities claimed that this would help in accommodating 6,048 additional berths to clear the extra rush of passengers and all this in addition to the 26 originating special trains being operated across the State, said the spokesperson.

Frequency increased

This apart, the frequency of train no. 18509 / 18510 Visakhapatnam-Nanded-Visakhapatnam Express will be increased from bi-weekly to tri-weekly.

Accordingly, train no. 18509 Visakhapatnam-Nanded Express, currently departing from Visakhapatnam on Wednesday and Saturday, will also depart on Tuesday. On its way, the train will arrive at Secunderabad at 9 a.m. and depart at 9.20 a.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

With effect from August 14, the train no. 18510 Nanded-Viskhapatnam Express, currently departing from Nanded on Thursday and Sunday, will depart on Wednesday as well. The train will arrive at Secunderabad at 9.10 p.m. and depart at 9.20 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday.

Meanwhile, traffic passed smoothly on the otherwise busy Miyapur-Kukatpally-S.R.Nagar-Lakdikapul stretch on Tuesday night with majority of private buses and RTC buses being cancelled due to the strike. Private bus operators claimed that 75 buses were operated on Tuesday against the daily traffic of 250 buses to Seemandhra region. Passengers, however, had some tense moments as the buses were stopped at Anantapur and Palamaneru areas for over six hours and for about 30 minutes in other Seemandhra regions by agitators.

Raising slogans, agitators stopped the buses from 2 a.m. at different places and as a result, the journey time extended by about five hours on the Hyderabad- Rayalaseema route. Given the uncertainty and apprehensions, most people are cancelling their trips and there is hardly 15 per cent seat occupancy ratio in buses, says H.T. Ramakrishna of Kesineni Travels.