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इलाहाबाद। उत्तर मध्य रेलवे प्रशासन ने इलाहाबाद जंक्शन से एक और ट्रेन हमेशा के लिए हटाने का फैसला कर लिया है। इलाहाबाद से ऊंचाहार होते हुए कानपुर तक चलने वाली एयूसी पैसेंजर अब कानपुर से प्रयाग के बीच ही चलाई जाएगी। यह ट्रेन नौ सितंबर से प्रयाग से इलाहाबाद के बीच नहीं चलेगी। अभी यह गाड़ी इलाहाबाद जंक्शन से कानपुर के लिए शाम 4.45 बजे छूटती है। सीपीआरओ संदीप माथुर के मुताबिक नौ सितंबर से गाड़ी संख्या 54102/54101 कानपुर से प्रयाग के बीच ही चलेगी। इससे प्रयाग से छूटने वाली ट्रेनों की संख्या बढ़कर छह हो जाएगी। यहां से पहले से ही जौनपुर की एक, फैजाबाद और बरेली की दो-दो पैसेंजर ट्रेनों का संचालन किया जा रहा है, लेकिन यात्रियों के लिए दिक्कत यह है कि प्रयाग से छूटने वाली ट्रेनों में न साफ-सफाई होती है और न ही पानी भरने की कोई व्यवस्था है। इलाहाबाद से कुंडा, ऊंचाहार और लालगंज की ओर जाने वाले यात्रियों को एक लाभ जरूर मिलेगा कि प्रयाग स्टेशन से इस ट्रेन का संचालन दुरुस्त हो जाएगा। जंक्शन से चलने के दौरान अक्सर यह गाड़ी रात आठ से नौ बजे के बीच छूटती है।

कानपुर, एक प्रतिनिधि: सेंट्रल स्टेशन पर शनिवार को हादसा होते-होते बच गया। बांदा पैसेंजर ट्रेन रवाना होने के लिए प्लेटफार्म नंबर छह पर खड़ी थी। ड्राइवर ने चलाने के लिए डीजल इंजन की रेस बढ़ाई तो धुएं के बजाय तेल की धार फूट पड़ी। यह देख प्लेटफार्म पर भगदड़ मच गई तो घबराए ड्राइवर ने इंजन को फौरन बंद कर दिया, वर्ना आग लगने पर बड़ी घटना हो सकती थी।

घटना सायं 4.10 बजे की है। ट्रेन चलने के लिए तैयार थी। चालक ने जब इंजन की रेस को बढ़ाया तो अचानक धुएं की चिमनी से डीजल की फुहार की निकलने। यह देख प्लेटफार्म पर खड़े यात्री आग लगने की आशंका में दूर भागने लगे। इंजन को आग से बचाने के लिए चालक ने इंजन को बंद कर दिया। सूचना मिलते ही रेल अधिकारी मौके पर पहुंचे। अभियंताओं ने इंजन को ठीक करने की कोशिश की लेकिन नाकाम रहे। सायं 5.40 बजे दूसरा इंजन लगाया गया। उसके बाद ट्रेन सात बजे रवाना हो सकी। घटना की जांच शुरू कर दी गई है।

COIMBATORE: The inaugural run of the Coimbatore-Rameswaram Weekly Express would be held on Sept 17 from here and from Rameswaram the next day in the return direction.

The train would leave Coimbatore at 7.45 PM to reach Rameswaram at 6.45 AM the next day and in the return direction would depart from Rameswaram at 7 PM on Wednesday to reach here at 6.40 AM the next day, a Southern Railway press release said today.

The trains will stop at Coimbatore North, Tirupur, Erode, Karur Junction, Tiruchirapalli, Pudukottai, ChettinadBSE 0.13 %, Karaikudi, Devakottai Road, Sivaganga, Manamadurai, Paramakudi, Ramanathapuram, Mandapam and Rameswaram, it said.

The advance reservations would open from tomorrow. Meanwhile, the frequency of the Coimbatore-Tirupati tri-weekly Express has been increased to four days per week.

The Coimbatore-Tirupati Express would leave here on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and in the return direction on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, it said.

However, there will be no change in the composition, timings and stoppages.

The additional service will be from sept 12 on both directions, the release said.

NFR rally to beat Sunrise AC
Sports reporter
GUWAHATI, Sept 6 – After two back-to-back defeats, defending champions NF Railway Sports Club are back to winning form in the Abhishek Motors RG Baruah GSA Super League Football Tournament as they rallied to beat Sunrise Athletic Club 2-1.
With today’s victory, the NF Railway team has collected 19 points with one match to go and are placed in a satisfactory position to retain the title. Navajyoti are following them with 15 points while Green Valley (14 points) and Sunrise (12 points) are in the third and the fourth positions respectively. Both Navajyoti and Green Valley have two more matches to play.

The Railway team was distinctly a dominating side today enjoying superior ball possession. They made a bright start but failed to breeze ahead at the early stage of the match. They should have won the match by a much bigger margin but their strikers – Jalendra Brahma, Y Raju Singh and Chayaram Basumatary – missed some easy sitters.

Despite having domination in the midfield and in the up front, the Railway strikers could not capitalise on the scoring opportunities even from close ranges. Particularly in the second session, the NF Railway team kept the Sunrise defenders under constant pressure.

The railwaymen conceded a soft goal in the 22nd minute when Nigerian Camara sent a square pass from the right wing to his country mate Olando who gently put the ball in the Railway goal (1-0).

In the remaining part of the first session, Railway made some valiant efforts in search of the equaliser but some good work by Sunrise defenders Sanjay Nag and Raju Roy, rescued them from conceding goal in the first session.

NF Railway finally managed to level the issue in the 66th minute when the ball deflected into the Sunrise goal off a Sibra Narzary shot. Sibra unleashed a shot from top of the box and the ball entered the goal kissing Sunrise defender Rojit Singh’s thigh (1-1).

Railwaymen’s tireless efforts paid off as Chayaram Basumatary hit the winning goal in the 85th minute. Anticipating a pass from Sushanta Mazumdar, Chayaram ran through the Sunrise defence line and drove home from inside the box (2-1).

Today’s match: (Super Div champions group) Dynamo vs AP Blues.

Unkempt surroundings and lack of facilities mar the MRTS stations in north Chennai. Liffy Thomas reports

A round clock with two faces, manufactured by Gani & Sons, dangling from the roof of the station grabs my attention as I alight at Chennai Fort. But, it is not ticking. Not bothering about the stench, dirt or dust, I walk up to the railway official's room on the platform and ask for the complaint register.

“Madam, the clock has not been working for months. The Railway is unable to find clock repairers,” he explains politely.

In the same breath he adds, that only stations with station masters have a complaint book and I must make an online complaint addressed to the Public Relation Officer. “The action will be quick, madam,” he assures, asking me to also include in the letter that the station has no water and toilet facility.

While it's a litany of woes at the 25-km long MRTS, the stations in north Chennai top the list. The inability of the Railway to maintain the stations has a telling impact on its patronage. But, for many residing in the northern belt, the MRTS is a lifeline.

For Geetha Sarvanan and Pooja, who commute to Kilpauk on work, the MRTS is the best mode of transport from Rajiv Gandhi Salai for it reduces travel time by half. “During monsoon, the station gets flooded and it is difficult to wade through it,” says Pooja, looking at Geetha threading jasmine flowers in the compartment. Compared to stations in the south, northern ones have better inter-nodal transport, but presents a sorry picture when it comes to maintenance.

Over 80,000 passengers use the MRTS every day and a good number of them travel to the northern part of the city. Passengers here have been demanding increase in frequency of trains during peak hours (9 car), clean water and toilet facility and refreshment stalls at the stations. For senior citizens and physically challenged they want a separate compartment.

“When the MRTS service started between Beach and Mylapore, travelling felt like luxury. The frequency of trains was less but we enjoyed every ride. Today, the service is deteriorating,” says Viji Sebastain, who travels to Beach station from Thiruvanmiyur on work.

With Chennai waiting for the first phase of Metro Rail project to commence, passengers hope it would not go the MRTS way.

South Central Railway will temporarily augment the following express trains with additional Coaches to clear the extra rush / waitlisted passengers as per the details mentioned below:-

1.Tr.No. 12764 Secunderabad- Tirupati Padmavati Express will be augmented with  two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 19th & 20thSeptember 2013.

2.    Tr.No. 12763 Tirupati - Secunderabad Padmavati Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 20th & 21st September 2013.

3.Tr.No. 12731 Secunderabad - Tirupati Bi-Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 10th, 11th, 17th & 18th September, 2013.
4.Tr.No. 12732 Tirupati - Secunderabad Bi-Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 11th, 12th, 18th & 19th September, 2013.
5.Tr.No. 17603 Kacheguda - Yesvantapur Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 11th to 20th September, 2013.
6.Tr.No. 17604 Yesvantapur - Kacheguda Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 12th to 21st September, 2013.
7.Tr.No. 17401 Tirupati - Machilipatnam Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coach from  11th to 20thSeptember, 2013.
8.Tr.No. 17402 Machilipatnam - Tirupati Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coach from 12th to 21st September, 2013.
9.Tr.No. 17429 Hyderabad - Tirupati Rayalseema Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 11th to 20thSeptember, 2013.
10.Tr.No. 17430 Tirupati- Hyderabad Rayalseema Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 12th to 21stSeptember, 2013.                                11.Tr.No. 12770 Secunderabad-Tirupati Seven Hills Bi-Weekly Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach o­n 10th, September, 2013; two additional Sleeper Class and o­ne AC III tier Coaches o­n 13th & 17thSeptember, 2013.
12.Tr.No. 12769 Tirupati - Secunderabad Seven Hills Bi-Weekly Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach o­n 13th September, 2013; two additional Sleeper Class and o­ne AC III tier Coaches o­n 16th & 20th September, 2013.
13.Tr.No. 12761 Tirupati- Karimnagar Weekly Express will be augmented with o­ne additional Sleeper Class Coach o­n 11thSeptember, 2013; two additional Sleeper Class and        one AC III tier Coaches o­n 14th& 18th September, 2013.
14.Tr.No. 12762 Karimnagar- Tirupati Weekly Express will be augmented with o­ne additional Sleeper Class Coach o­n 12thSeptember, 2013; two additional Sleeper Class and        one AC III tier Coaches o­n 15th& 19th September, 2013.
15.Tr.No. 17210 Kakinada Town - Bangalore Seshadri Express will be augmented with one additional AC III tier Coach and o­ne Sleeper Class Coach from 11thto 20th September, 2013.
16.Tr.No. 17209 Bangalore - Kakinada Town Seshadri Express will be augmented with one additional AC III tier Coach and o­ne Sleeper Class Coach from 12th to 21st          September, 2013.
17.Tr.No. 17230 Hyderabad – Trivandrum Central Sabari Express will be augmented with one additional Ist AC Coach from 11thto 20th September, 2013.
18.Tr.No. 17229 Trivandrum Central - Hyderabad Sabari Express will be augmented with        one additional Ist AC Coach from 13th to 22nd September, 2013.
19.Tr.No. 17405 Tirupati - Adilabad Krishna Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 11th to 20th September, 2013.
20.Tr.No. 17406 Adilabad - Tirupati Krishna Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 12th to 21st September, 2013.
21.Tr.No. 12797 Kacheguda - Chittoor Venkatadri Express will be augmented with one additional AC II tier Coach from 11th to 20thSeptember, 2013.
22.Tr.No. 12798 Chittoor - Kacheguda Venkatadri Express will be augmented with one additional AC II tier Coach from 12th to 21stSeptember, 2013.
23.Tr.No. 17618 H S Nanded - Mumbai CST Tapovan Express will be augmented with one additional AC Chair Car Coach from 11th to 20th September, 2013.
24.Tr.No. 17617 Mumbai CST - H S Nanded Tapovan Express will be augmented with one additional AC Chair Car Coach from 12th to 21stSeptember, 2013.
      25.Tr.No. 17688 Dharmabad - Manmad Marathwada Express will be augmented with            one additional AC Chair Car Coach from 11th to 20thSeptember, 2013.
26.Tr.No. 17687 Manmad - Dharmabad Marathwada Express will be augmented with one additional AC Chair Car Coach from 11th to 20thSeptember, 2013.
27.Tr.No. 12747 Guntur - Vikarabad Palnadu Express will be augmented with one additional AC Chair Car and two Second Sitting Chair Car Coaches from 10thto 20th  September, 2013.
28.Tr.No. 12748 Vikarabad - Guntur Palnadu Express will be augmented with one additional AC Chair Car and two Second Sitting Chair Car Coaches from 10thto 20th          September, 2013.
29.Tr.No. 17562 Kacheguda - Chennai Egmore Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 10thto 20th September, 2013.
30.Tr.No. 17561 Chennai Egmore - Kacheguda Express will be augmented with  one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 13thto 23rd September, 2013.
31.Tr.No. 17643 Chennai Egmore - Kakinada Port Circar Express will be augmented with            one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 11th to 21st September, 2013.
32.Tr.No. 17644 Kakinada Port - Chennai Egmore Circar Express will be augmented with one additional Sleeper Class Coach from 12thto 22nd September, 2013.
33.Tr.No. 17255 Narsapur - Hyderabad Express will be augmented with one Sleeper Class Coach from 10thto 20th September, 2013.
34.Tr.No. 17256 Hyderabad-Narsapur Express will be augmented with one Sleeper Class Coach from 11thto 21st September, 2013.
          These 250 additional Sleeper Class, 28 AC III Tier, 20 AC II Tier, 62 AC Chair Car, 44 Second Sitting and 20 First AC Coaches will make available 21, 192 additional berths, 9216 additional seats to clear extra rush and wait listed passengers.

The Parel-Elphinstone railway bridge completes a century. In an era when mills have given way for malls and tall glass towers, this iron bridge built by the Great Indian Peninsula railway (now called Central Railway) in 1913 to replace a level crossing on the railway lines continues to serve loyally.“The bridge is a mix of stone and iron structure built by local contractors with material from Glasgow. It had an attached booking office to it on the Western Railway, one of the few railway stations to have one such,” recalls a railway engineer with the Central Railway.The Bombay Gazetteer states that the municipal body had refused to share cost of the bridge and the Great Indian Peninsula Railway went ahead and got it built at its own cost. The material had been shipped from P&W Works based at Glasgow in 1911 and by 1913 the bridge was ready. The bridge was built by Parsi railway contractors Contractor Bomanji Rustomji.Local residents, however, say that there was an old and temporary bridge at the location before this one came up. Seventy-year-old Parshuram Walje, an old resident of the area, says that he remembers his parents telling him about an old narrow, temporary iron bridge that was once at the location.“This large bridge became a necessity when motorised vehicles had begun to grow,” he said. Motorised vehicles were introduced in Bombay ten years before this bridge came up in the first decade of 20th century.

City historian Deepak Rao said these bridges over the railway were crucial to connect the east and the west over the two railway lines that vertically intersected the city.

New Delhi: Palace on Wheels, the luxury train for tourists, today chugged out of Safdarjung station here on its first journey of the season carrying 34 passengers.   A joint venture of Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), the train with all modern facilities will travel to Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital.   The train has 23 coaches comprising 14 saloons, one spa coach, two restaurants--"Maharaja" and "Maharani", and one reception-cum-bar.   The seven-day journey takes the tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes in air-conditioned comfort.   It will make a total of 34 trips from September 2013 to April 2014 and 3000 passengers are expected to travel in the train, said a senior railway official.   The Palace on Wheels is a luxury tourist train. It was launched by the Indian Railways to promote tourism in Rajasthan.   The train service was refurbished and relaunched in August 2009 with a new decor, itinerary and cuisine. It was voted the 4th luxurious train in the world in 2010.

In an unprecedented move, the Mumbai Railway Accident Claims Tribunal (RCT) has asked the Central Railway (CR) and Western Railway (WR) to file FIRs on fraudulent railway accident compensation claims.The RCT found that compensation awarded to railway accident claimants run into crores — CR paid Rs70.2 crore in two years — and that 25 per cent of compensation cheques are returned because the claimants’ addresses turn out to be fake. Since January 2011, 1,905 of the 7,346 cheques issued by CR were returned unclaimed because of incorrect addresses. In one case, an RCT team led by its member (technical) S Ananthanarayan notified the anti-corruption bureau that 30-odd cases filed with it had the same address for all the victims in the Adarsh Nagar locality of Jalgaon. Also, all claimants had accounts in two cooperative banks in Jalgaon’s Ganesh Colony area.On August 23, the RCT wrote to the WR’s chief claims office, asking it to file an FIR in connection with an accident compensation case filed at the Lucknow RCT as well as the Mumbai RCT, which was in contravention of the rules. The man who filed the case in Lucknow, however, said he did not file for the claim in Mumbai.Atul Rane, chief spokesman, CR, said it was the first time that CR had filed five FIRs in two months against such fraudulent claims. “We are filing cases under section 148 (making false statement in a compensation application punishable with a three-year jail term or a fine) of the Indian Railway Act. This was done on the recommendation of the Mumbai RCT,” he said.

New Delhi: Palace on Wheels, the luxury train for tourists, today chugged out of Safdarjung station here on its first journey of the season carrying 34 passengers.   A joint venture of Indian Railways and Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation (RTDC), the train with all modern facilities will travel to Jaipur, Sawaimadhopur, Chittorgarh, Udaipur, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Bharatpur and Agra before returning to the capital.   The train has 23 coaches comprising 14 saloons, one spa coach, two restaurants--"Maharaja" and "Maharani", and one reception-cum-bar.   The seven-day journey takes the tourists across mountains, rivers, forests and sand dunes in air-conditioned comfort.   It will make a total of 34 trips from September 2013 to April 2014 and 3000 passengers are expected to travel in the train, said a senior railway official.   The Palace on Wheels is a luxury tourist train. It was launched by the Indian Railways to promote tourism in Rajasthan.   The train service was refurbished and relaunched in August 2009 with a new decor, itinerary and cuisine. It was voted the 4th luxurious train in the world in 2010.