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MYSORE: South Western Railways (SWR) has introduced special trains for clearing extra rush.Senior divisional commercial manager (SWR, Mysore) K Anil Kumar said Yesvantpur-Jaipur-Yesvantpur Garib Rath Weekly Express Special (06511/06512) will run via Tumkur, Arsikere, Birur, Davangere, Haveri, Hubli, Bijapur, Hotgi, Solapur, Pune, Kalyan, Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Falna, Ajmer.Train will run from Yesvantpur on Sundays till July 28 and reach Jaipur on Tuesdays till July 30 (four trips).The train will depart from Yesavantpur on Sunday at 5.10am and reach Jaipur at 3.50am on Tuesday. Same day, the train will depart from Jaipur at 3.30pm and reach Yesavantpur on Thursday at 3.10pm.Yesvantpur-Miraj-Yesvantpur Tri-weekly Express Special (06517/06518) will run via Tumkur, Arsikere, Davangere, Hubli, Dharwad, Belgaum, Ghataprabha, Kudachi.The special train will run till August 30 from Yesvantpur on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and from Miraj till August 31, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The train will depart at 8.40pm from Yesvantpur on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays and reach at Miraj 10.15am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays respectively. The same train will depart from Miraj 4.45pm, arrive Yesvantpur at 6.20pm.

Work on the much-awaited Police Commissioner’s Office junction (SP office junction earlier) overbridge across the Kollam-Thiruvananthapuram railway track in the city has been completed, and the bridge is expected to be opened to traffic by Onam.The overbridge is expected to ease significantly the traffic congestion on the Chinnakada stretch.It also provides an easy link to the city for the people of the thickly populated Mundakkal-Tillery areas, who had to cross four level crossings between the Commissioner office junction and Polayathodu. When the level crossings were closed, they had to take the roundabout route through Kochupilamoodu to reach Chinnakada or even the railway station, which is just across the junction. Officials of the Public Works Department (PWD) (Bridges) in charge of building the overbridge said only a few small works remained. These included the wearing coat, which is provided over concrete bridge decks to protect the structure from wear and tear caused by traffic.When opened to traffic, the overbridge will enable vehicles bound for other destinations via Kollam city to bypass Chinnakada. But linking the overbridge to the National Highway near the Town Hall stretch will necessitate a new junction with a traffic island. The city Corporation has handed over 42 cents of land from the Cantonment Maidan to the PWD for the junction, and work has begun. Traffic signals will be installed to ensure an accident-free junction. Not only vehicles entering the NH from the bridge, but also those coming from the SN College junction and proceeding towards Chinnakada will need to be regulated.

Vehicles bound for the SN College junction from Chinnakada will have to be stopped at intervals to allow the vehicles from the bridge to enter that course. Entry of vehicles from the bridge to the NH will also be regulated by traffic signals. Facility for vehicles coming down the bridge to take a U-turn and proceed to Chinnakada will also be provided.

At the Kochupilamoodu end of the bridge, construction of retaining walls on either side of the embankment laid as part of the approach road to the bridge is nearing completion. The overbridge comprises 21 spans, of which one across the railway line was constructed by Railways. The remaining portion has been constructed by the State government at Rs.14.25 crore.

The overbride project was mooted in 1994 and the stone was laid in 2003.

Ludhiana : Annoyed Railway employees and pensioners staged a protest outside the Railway Hospital today. They demanded more facilities at the Railway Hospital. A large number of the members of the All-India Retired Railway Men's Federation and Northern Railway Men's Union (NRMU) raised slogans against the Railway administration.While addressing the protesters, MS Gill, president, All-India Retired Railway Men's Federation, said the struggle would continue till the Railway administration responded to their demands.Paramjit Singh of NRMU said, "We will stage protests in all the subdivisions of Ferozepur division for our demands."The protesters are demanding the collaboration of the Railway Hospital with any private hospital for the on bill treatment of railway employees and their family members." Specialist doctors of all the diseases should be deputed at the hospital. At least, one ambulance should be available at the hospital. The medicines of all companies should be available at the chemist shop at the Railway Hospital," said Gill."The authorities should give fixed medical allowance to the employees deputed away from the subdivisional hospital," he added.Daljit Singh, divisional general secretary, NRMU, said, " If the Railway authorities will not respond to our demands, we would intensify our struggle".

For the convenience of rail passengers, Northern Railway has decided to provide additional stoppage to train no. 04009/0410 Delhi Sarai Rohilla- Bhatinda- Delhi Sarai Rohilla special at Tohana with immediate effect in both the directions. The other features like route, timings, composition, stoppages etc. will remain as unchanged.

Central Railway

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RUNNING OF TRACK MONITORING SPECIAL o­n HARBOUR AND TRANSHARBOUR LINES



Central Railway will run Track Monitoring Special o­n Harbour and Trans-Harbour line for monitoring of tracks as under:-

CSTM-PANVEL o­n HARBOUR LINE o­n 17/18.7.2013 (Wednesday-Thursday Night)



CST        Dep.  01.10 am          Panvel      Arr.  02.15 am

Panvel      Dep.  02.30 am          CST        Arr.  03.35 am

NERUL- THANE TRANS HARBOUR LINE o­n 18/19.7.2013 (Thursday-Friday Night)

Nerul      Dep.  02.15 am          Thane      Arr.  02.45 am

Thane      Dep.  02.55 am          Nerul      Arr.  03.25 am

Passengers are requested to note that these specials will run non-stop o­n these Sections and avoid tress passing.

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Date: July 16th, 2013

This news comes to you from Public Relations Department, Central Railway, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Mumbai.

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MP Pratibha Singh called on railways minister Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi on Tuesday and requested him to expand the railway network in the state, besides ordering a fresh inspection of century-old Kalka-Shimla rail line to check its traffic worthiness.She told him that the state had remained neglected as far as expansion of railway network was concerned. She requested Kharge to accord top priority to sanctioning future projects for the state.She also demanded that the Bilaspur-Bhanupali-Manali-Leh railway line should be declared as project of national importance and should be fully funded by the union government keeping in view of its strategic importance from defense point of view.Demanding adequate budgetary allocation for early and timely completion of the Nangal-Talwara railway line, the work on which has been going on at snail's pace for the past many years, she urged for broad gauge railway line from Kalka to Baddi keeping in view of the growth of the industrial sector in the region.She requested for fresh survey of railways overbridges and railways underbridges on the Shimla-Kalka line to assess the strength of these bridges, saying that these bridges were 100-year old and had turned bad due to continuous use.She also demanded that all tunnels on the Shimla -Kalka railway line should be assessed by technical experts from passengers' safety point of view.She said the railways could play an important role in promoting tourism and economic activities in the state and asked for plying more trains to metro cities from Kalka and Una stations so that tourists could be facilitated.She also demanded railways expansion in Kangra valley which had immense scope for expansion.

Himachal Pradesh MP Pratibha Singh Tuesday met Railways Minister Mallikarjun Kharge and requested him to expand the railway network in the state, besides ordering a fresh inspection of the century-old Kalka-Shimla rail line to check its traffic worthiness.Contending that the state remains neglected as far as expansion of railway network is concerned, she requested Kharge to accord top priority to sanctioning future projects to the state.The newly-elected Lok Sabha member, who is the wife of Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, asked Kharge to undertake a survey of bridges located on the century-old Kalka-Shimla rail line, a 96-km-long narrow gauge railroad built to ferry Europeans to and from Shimla - then the summer capital of British India."A fresh survey of bridges and tunnels on the Shimla-Kalka line needs to be undertaken to assess their strength as they have gone in bad shape," she said.The Kalka-Shimla rail line has been chosen by Unesco as a world heritage site in 2008.Pratibha Singh also demanded that the Bilaspur-Bhanupali-Manali-Leh railways line, which will link Himachal Pradesh with neighboring Jammu and Kashmir through rail, should be declared as project of national importance.She said the project should be fully funded by the union government keeping in view its strategic importance.She also demanded adequate budgetary allocation for early and timely completion of the Nangal-Talwara rail line, the work on which has been going on at a snail's pace for many years.To link the state's industrial town Baddi with Chandigarh, she requested for laying broad gauge railway line from Kalka to Baddi.

The South Eastern Railway (SER) has come up with a host of measures to ease the rush of devotees who flock various religious destinations during the holy month of Shravan.
For those bound for Baidyanath Temple, the railway authorities have decided to introduce a special train from Tatanagar to Jasidih, the nearest station to Deoghar. The train will chug off on its first journey on July 22. The service will continue till August 22, the last day of Shravani Mela.
Officials at the SER headquarters at Garden Reach, Calcutta, said that the special train would run five days a week — on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
According to schedule, it will leave Tatanagar at 11.45am and reach Jasidih at 7.20pm. The return trip the next day will start at 11.10am from Jasidih and the train will arrive at Tatanagar at 5.30pm.
Railway authorities are also planning to add one coach each to Tatanagar-Chapra Express and South Bihar Express, which witness huge rush of devotees throughout the month of Shravan.
“Apart from introducing the special train, we will also add extra coaches to comfortably accommodate devotees bound for various destinations in Bihar,” said Tatanagar station manager Awtar Singh.
Railway sources said that Garden Reach would also come out with a circular announcing the halt of passenger trains at Mahadevshal in West Singhbhum, where a grand fair is organised at the local Shiva temple.
Every year, the Tata-Bilaspur Passenger, South Bihar Express, Tata-Allepey Express and few other trains halt at Mahadevshal during the month of Shravan .
Members of Chotanagpur Passengers’ Association, however,found the new measures inadequate.
“The number of devotees are swelling every year. The railways should introduce at least two special trains to Jasidih,” said a member.

The Railways have generated Rs. 22795.55 crore of revenue earnings from commodity-wise freight traffic during 1st April to 30th June 2013 as compared to Rs. 21027.96 crore during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 8.41 per cent.Railways carried 256.79 million tonnes of commodity-wise freight traffic during April-June 2013 as compared to 244.81 million tonnes carried during the corresponding period last year, registering an increase of 4.89 per cent.Out of the total earnings of Rs. 7471.30 crore from commodity-wise freight traffic during the month of June 2013, Rs. 3360.90 crore came from transportation of 42.33 million tonnes of coal, followed by Rs. 668.91 crore from 9.82 million tonnes of iron ore for exports, steel plants and for other domestic user, Rs. 660.35 crore from 8.23 million tonnes of cement, Rs. 563.70 crore from 4.15 million tonnes of foodgrains, Rs. 447.67 crore from 3.60 million tonnes of petroleum oil and lubricant (POL), Rs. 473.48 crore from 2.96 million tonnes of Pig iron and finished steel from steel plants and other points, Rs. 378.40 crore from 3.77 million tonnes of fertilizers, Rs. 120.01 crore from 1.49 million tonnes of raw material for steel plants except iron ore, Rs. 356.28 crore from 3.48 million tonnes by container service and Rs. 441.60 crore from 5.12 million tonnes of other goods.

BANGALORE: Metro train services here would be extended with the launch of 10.3 km line connecting industrial hub of Peenya and Sampige Road Station in the city from September.Chief minister Siddaramaiah, in a written reply to a question by Appaji Nadagouda ( Congress) in the Legislative Assembly, noted that this stretch of 10.30 km has 10 stations.Trains would run between Jalahalli and Hesaraghatta Cross (2.5 km stretch) from March next.Change of metro alignment at the Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology would cost additional Rs 145 crore to the State exchequer.Meanwhile, officials said clearance from the Centre for the 'Namma Metro' works of phase-II covering 72 kms at a cost of Rs 26,045 crore is expected shortly.The government has done a feasibility study for suburban rail system connecting Bangalore to Tumkur and Ramanagaram, among others.The project is expected to cost Rs 8,759 crore. A detailed project report for phase-I would be prepared, officials said, adding special purpose - Bangalore Sub-Urban Rail Corporation - would be set up for implementing this project.