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NAGPUR: Central Railway will be running a special super-fast service between Shalimar and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus railway stations.

The train (08060) Shalimar-LTT Super-fast Special will leave Shalimar at 6 AM on July 3 (Wednesday) and arrive LTT in Mumbai at 1.35 PM the next day (Thursday), a release said.

The special service will leave LTT at 12.45 AM on Friday and arrive Shalimar at 8.20 AM next day

Sonepat: Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda laid the foundation stone of a railway overbridge at a level crossing on the Delhi-Ambala railway line near Sonepat cooperative sugar mill on the Sonepat-Purkhas-Gohana road recently.The Speaker, Haryana Vidhan Sabha, Kuldeep Sharma, Sonepat MP Jitender Singh Malik, Chief Parliamentary Secretary Jaiveer Singh, MLAs Jai Tirth, Jagbir Malik and Sri Krishan Hooda, the political adviser to the Chief Minister, Prof Virender, former minister, Krishna Gahlaut, vice-president of the Haryana Women Commission Chander Prabha, chairperson of the Haryana Social Welfare Board Sumitra Chauhan, DCC urban president Pradeep Gautam, and senior officers of the PWD Department and district administration were present on the occasion.The bridge will be constructed at an estimated cost of Rs 47.29 crore and will be completed in two years.— OC

The construction work for the car depot for the 33.5km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz metro corridor, which will be built on 30 hectares in Aarey Colony, will be carried out in an eco-friendly way, the authority has assured.While the corridor will be fully underground, the depot will come up in Aarey Colony, which has a substantial green cover.UPS Madan, MMRDA commissioner, said, “We will come up with a plan for the construction of the metro depot to ensure that it does not have a negative impact on the environment. We will replant trees, which will have to be removed to make way for the depot.”The 12sqm Aarey colony, which houses many species of animals including leopards, acts as buffer zone for the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.The MMRDA has claimed that the construction work will not have impact the biodiversity.The state revenue department had, in March, asked the collector of Mumbai Suburban district to survey the plot as part of the process of handing it over to the MMRDA.“Our consultants had appointed an expert team to carry out the environmenta study of the plot. According to the report, the construction of the depot will not impact the biodiversity in surrounding areas. We will take all necessary measures to reduce the negative impact, if any, on the environment,” said an MMRDA official, on condition of anonymity, as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

As the metro corridor will be 17-22 m deep, the MMRDA wil have to construct entry-exit points at street level. According to the MMRDA, there will be about 2 to 12 entry-exit points at 27 metro stations.

“The metro stations will have 2 to 12 entry-exit points depending on the number of roads and commuters at the stations,” said Madan.

LUCKNOW: The Special Task Force on Monday arrested six more persons who were part of the statewide racket of leaking question paper of a Railway Recruitment Board competitive exam. On Sunday, seven persons were arrested from Muzaffarnagar and Delhi for leaking question paper of the exam held for the post of Railway Protection Force (RPF) constables. The kingpin of the gang Arvind Rana, who runs coaching centres in western UP, is on the run.The names of the persons arrested are Rahul, Sumit, Sonu, Anuj, Anil and Amit. Members of the group used to get hold of question papers before they were delivered to the exam centers. Devendra K Chaudhary, senior superintendent of STF said, "The group members used their connections to get hold of papers of various codes while in transit.The answers were then texted to solvers who were positioned in different centres to help candidates who seal the deal with the gang beforehand."The first breakthrough was achieved by sleuth on May 23 in Delhi when a solver was arrested. The person was sharing the answers through mobile phone and used a locket of the religious kind to hide a sophisticated telecommunication device.

Revised timings of trains at Major stations of ECR with effect from - 01.07.2013
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For the convenience of the rail passengers and to increase the passenger carrying capacity of trains, Railway has decided to augment  the 15017/15018 Lokmanya Tilak Terminal- Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminal Express Trains o­n temporary basis as per the under-mentioned  programme:



15017/15018 Lokmanya Tilak Terminal- Gorakhpur - Lokmanya Tilak Terminal  Express Train will be augmented by o­ne Additional General second class  coach with immediate effect to 15.07.2013 when departing from Gorakhpur and from 03.07.2013 to 17.07.2013 when departing from Lokmanya Tilak Terminal. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.

NAGPUR: Central Railway will be running a special super-fast service between Shalimar and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus railway stations.

The train (08060) Shalimar-LTT Super-fast Special will leave Shalimar at 6 AM on July 3 (Wednesday) and arrive LTT in Mumbai at 1.35 PM the next day (Thursday), a release said.

The special service will leave LTT at 12.45 AM on Friday and arrive Shalimar at 8.20 AM next day

For the convenience of the rail passengers and to increase the passenger carrying capacity of trains, Railway has decided to augment  the 15017/15018 Lokmanya Tilak Terminal- Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminal Express Trains o­n temporary basis as per the under-mentioned  programme:



15017/15018 Lokmanya Tilak Terminal- Gorakhpur - Lokmanya Tilak Terminal  Express Train will be augmented by o­ne Additional General second class  coach with immediate effect to 15.07.2013 when departing from Gorakhpur and from 03.07.2013 to 17.07.2013 when departing from Lokmanya Tilak Terminal. The other features like timings, route, stoppages, composition etc. will remain as unchanged.

Photographs of Sonia Gandhi and the prime minister sitting in a railway carriage as it zoomed through the newlymade Banihal Tunnel linking the Kashmir Valley to the rest of the state last week brought back vivid memories.

I had seen the tunnel under construction in 2009 while writing a book called Linking Paradise on the new line from Anantnag to Baramulla. Every turn of the 120 km long broad guage line brought delightful surprises.

Rolling green rice fields — just like my native Bengal so far away — golden mustard blooms, magnificent chinar trees, proud poplars marching into the blue yonder, apple and walnut orchards, quaint villages and the Pir Panjal and Zanskar ranges standing guard over this delicate, beauteous vale.

The new tunnel was then but a hole in the Pir Panjal range beyond a station called Qazigund, but it held such promise. For it would finally link the rest of India's venerable railway system — that began back in 1853, a mere half century after the first public railway opened in Britain — to the Kashmir Valley's very first line, over 150 years later. A lot has been said about the Konkan Railway, which winds its way through the scenic Western Ghats, beside the Arabian Sea.

It is truly a great feat of engineering. As indeed is the new Banihal Tunnel, which, at 11.2km is India's longest railway tunnel — about 9km longer than the 56-year-old and mostly snow-bound Jawahar road tunnel, 440m above it. But making the Kashmir Railway meant much more. For it entailed building lines and bridges not only in the Valley but also to its people.

It was thus not only an engineering achievement but a political, economic and diplomatic one too. The men who built it didn't merely have to deal with the terrain but also negotiate issues that still confound political leaderships. As a fan of great engineering projects I marvelled at the 811 bridges fording the very scenic brooks and dales that had so enchanted Emperor Jehangir centuries ago. Practically every section of the line also demonstrated the great sensitivity on the part of the railway teams who could have just retreated behind their professional hardhats.

But they didn't. They swapped it ever so often for the bareheaded empathy and adaptability of social workers. The amazing Veith Bridge over the Jhelum is a case in point for it incorporated a specially-made 45.7 metre steel span instead of only standard 30 metre ones, just so that its pylons would not disturb a small cemetery revered by local residents.

Indeed, the sentiments of the Valley folk had to be considered at all times so the indefatigable engineers of the Indian Railways had to use not only their technical skills but also their EQ to plan and execute this project. No canals could be converged to save on culverts, no chinar trees could be cut or orchards razed to make the shortest track alignment, and so on.

I remember musing that the track embankments — made with reinforced material, as the local soil is very soft — were the most bewitching in India if not the world, for they were covered with wildflowers, rather than the usual ordure. And the stations were modern but designed to incorporate features of the Valley's traditional architecture. The waiting hall of the Srinagar station, in fact, has got to be the most magnificent in the world.

Much of the building's interiors, including the waiting hall's stunning triple-height ceiling, is covered with the intricately carved woodwork called khatambandh, a speciality of the Srinagar area. The city's people can truly look upon it as a showcase of their talent.

There was more. Though the government poured money unstintingly into this project, ingenuity was needed too. Moving equipment was expensive and often logistically impossible so impromptu alternatives had to be devised. Trucks retrofitted with railway wheels towing ballast machines to sweep snow instead of gravel were double innovations! The transport of the sleek train coaches needed even more quick thinking.

LUCKNOW: The Special Task Force on Monday arrested six more persons who were part of the statewide racket of leaking question paper of a Railway Recruitment Board competitive exam. On Sunday, seven persons were arrested from Muzaffarnagar and Delhi for leaking question paper of the exam held for the post of Railway Protection Force (RPF) constables. The kingpin of the gang Arvind Rana, who runs coaching centres in western UP, is on the run.The names of the persons arrested are Rahul, Sumit, Sonu, Anuj, Anil and Amit. Members of the group used to get hold of question papers before they were delivered to the exam centers. Devendra K Chaudhary, senior superintendent of STF said, "The group members used their connections to get hold of papers of various codes while in transit.The answers were then texted to solvers who were positioned in different centres to help candidates who seal the deal with the gang beforehand."The first breakthrough was achieved by sleuth on May 23 in Delhi when a solver was arrested. The person was sharing the answers through mobile phone and used a locket of the religious kind to hide a sophisticated telecommunication device.