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Kochi: The newly-launched Punalur-Guruvayur fast passenger train service is a hit among passengers and the railways is considering a proposal to introduce two sleeper coaches in the daily train running at peak hour.

Kodikunnil Suresh MP “The Madurai divisional railway manager has forwarded the proposal to the Southern Railway headquarters, Chennai.

The Railway Board is likely to give its nod soon. Already, the Madurai-Kollam passenger has the reservation facility”.

The initiative was taken in the wake of many enquiries, particularly from elderly people, travelling to Guruvayur.

The timing is convenient for devotees to avoid overnight stay and is useful for office-goers.

The train covers the Thrissur-Kottayam stretch in the morning peak hour, said Suresh, who is also the minister of state for labour.

The train covers 294.6 km and has 27 halts. Train No 56366 Punalur-Guruvayur departs at 5.30 p.m. and arrives at the destination at 2.15 a.m.

Similarly, Train No 56365 Guruvayur-Punalur departs from Guruvayur at 6 a.m. and reaches the destination at 2.30 p.m.

Kochi: The newly-launched Punalur-Guruvayur fast passenger train service is a hit among passengers and the railways is considering a proposal to introduce two sleeper coaches in the daily train running at peak hour.

Kodikunnil Suresh MP “The Madurai divisional railway manager has forwarded the proposal to the Southern Railway headquarters, Chennai.

The Railway Board is likely to give its nod soon. Already, the Madurai-Kollam passenger has the reservation facility”.

The initiative was taken in the wake of many enquiries, particularly from elderly people, travelling to Guruvayur.

The timing is convenient for devotees to avoid overnight stay and is useful for office-goers.

The train covers the Thrissur-Kottayam stretch in the morning peak hour, said Suresh, who is also the minister of state for labour.

The train covers 294.6 km and has 27 halts. Train No 56366 Punalur-Guruvayur departs at 5.30 p.m. and arrives at the destination at 2.15 a.m.

Similarly, Train No 56365 Guruvayur-Punalur departs from Guruvayur at 6 a.m. and reaches the destination at 2.30 p.m.

Central Railway has decided to run 2 Air-conditioned Superfast special trains between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and Hazarat Nizamuddin to clear the extra rush of passengers.The details are as under –

02109 AC Superfast special train will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus on Tuesday 08.10.2013 at 14.30 hrs and arrive Hazarat Nizamuddin at 10.20 hrs next day. 02110 AC Superfast special train will leave Hazarat Nizamuddin on Wednesday 09.10.2013 at 15.50 hrs and arrive Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 11.50 hrs next day.

Halts: Nasik Road, Bhusawal, Bhopal, Jhansi, Gwalior and Agra Cantonement.

Composition: one AC First Class, Three AC-2 tier, Ten AC-3 tier, 2 Generators cum guard’s brake vans and one Pantry car.

Reservation: Bookings for train No. 02109 open from 04.10.2013.

In the face of rising incidence of loot of passengers after drugging them, the East Coast Railways (ECoR) has launched a massive awareness programme among rail users and travellers.The RPF unit of Khurda Road Division conducted a programme at Berhampur railway station and distributed info-leaflets to passengers making them aware on activities of drug peddlers, snatchers and robbers moving in trains and stations.A mock rescue of a passenger drugged by miscreants in a train was also demonstrated. A street play ‘Bhul Hoigala’ was also presented, educating people how miscreants befriend innocent passengers, offer intoxicated eatable items and then loot them. The Railway security force has urged passengers not to take food, drinks and prasad which may have intoxicating elements from any co-passenger. It has also asked people not to buy railway tickets from the touts or any unauthorised agent.Passengers have been advised to immediately inform security personnel if they suspect the activities of anybody as well as unclaimed luggage in trains and platforms.

Meanwhile, ECoR has announced three more special trains between Puri and Santragachhi in Kolkata in view of increase in passenger flow during Durga Puja.

The Santragachhi-Puri Special train will leave Santragachhi at 7 pm on October 10 and arrive at Puri at 4.15 am on October 11. In the return direction, the train will leave Puri at 6.20 pm on October 11 and reach Santragachhi at 3.10 am on October 12.

The second Santragachhi-Puri Special train will leave Santragachhi at 08.30 am on October 13 and arrive at Puri at 5.10 pm on the same day. In return direction, it will leave Puri at 11 pm on October 13 and reach Santragachhi at 8.05 am next day.

The third train will leave Santragachhi at 7 pm on October 17 and arrive at Puri at 4.15 am on October 18. In the return direction, it will leave Puri at 5.30 am on October 18 and arrive at Santragachhi at 2.30 pm on the same day. The trains  will have stoppages at Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Balasore and Kharagpur between Puri and Santragachhi.

PHAGWARA: new train service connecting Hoshiarpur with Delhi was today flagged off from Hoshiarpur railway station.The Delhi-Hoshiarpur weekly express train, flagged off by Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Santosh Chowdhary, will depart from Old Delhi station at 11.5 PM every Saturday to reach Hoshiarpur at 7.10 AM the next day.In the return direction, the express train will depart from Hoshiarpur on every Sunday at 10.30 PM to reach Old Delhi at 7.10 AM the next day.The train will have stoppages at Jalandhar Cantt, Phagwara, Ludhiana, Ambala Cantt and Panipat, railway officials said.The train has one AC II tier, two AC III tier, five sleeper class, six second class coaches besides two second class disabled friendly coach cum luggage van.There was a demand for an express train for the region and with the introduction of the service, passengers have been provided a more comfortable and faster train services in the region, said a Northern Railway official.The one-side fare of the general coach is Rs 109. Besides the Minister, senior railway officials were present at the station on the flagging off ceremony.

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A first-of-its-kind stainless steel AC EMU being rolled out at ICF factory in Perambur on Tuesday. — DC Chennai: Rail travellers in the city should perhaps wait long for facilities like GPS based passenger annou­ncement on EMUs.

Southern Railway general manager Rakesh Misra cited technical shortcomings plus financial constraints and said  provision of amenities like GPS enabled public address system aboard EMUs (electrical multiple units) and stainless steel coaches would not happen immediately.

He was responding to media queries after flagging off the first fully stainless steel AC EMU rake with IGBT based 3-phase propulsion system produced with German engineering at ICF for phase-II of Mumbai urban transport project (MUTP).

Asked if Southern Railway would also buy stainless steel coaches from ICF for city EMUs, he said the MUTP project was funded by World Bank and Southern Railway does not have adequate funds to buy such expensive coaches as of now.

Earlier, addressing workers, ICF chief electrical engineer S. Sridhar said ICF would switch over to stainless steel in the next four years as soon as the Rs 600 crore conversion project gets over.

Listing out the value addition available in the new train, ICF chief mechanical engineer Pankaj Kumar said the new energy efficient and air conditioned EMU has been designed to allow 16,000 cubic meters of fresh air per hour in to a coach.

Lauding the Integral Coach Factory for delivering the value added coaches in time, Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation chairman cum managing director Rakesh Saksena presented Rs 1 lakh cash award to ICF and said the two-phase MUTP would ease the burden on Mumbai's overcrowded urban metro rail network. 

States:

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. 17018 Secunderabad- Rajkot Tri-Weekly Express will be augmented with one additional AC III Tier Coach o­n 1st, 5th, 7th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 19th October 2013.

2.Tr.No. 17017 Rajkot - Secunderabad Tri-Weekly Express will be augmented with one additional AC III Tier Coach o­n 3rd, 7th, 9th, 10th, 14th, 16th, 17th and21st October 2013.
3.Tr.No. 17002 Secunderabad - Sainagar Shirdi Express will be augmented with one additional AC III Tier Coach o­n 4th, 11th and 18thOctober 2013 (Fridays).
4.Tr.No. 17001 Sainagar Shirdi - Secunderabad Express will be augmented with one additional AC III Tier Coach o­n 5th, 12th and 19thOctober 2013 (Saturdays).
5.Tr.No. 17225 Vijayawada - Hubli Amaravathi Tri-Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 3rd, 5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 17th, 19th, 21st, 24th, 26th, 28th and 31stOctober 2013.

6.Tr.No. 17226 Hubli - Vijayawada Amaravathi Tri-Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, 14th, 16th, 19th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 28th, 30th October and 2ndNovember 2013.


7.      Tr.No. 17208 Vijayawada - Sainagar Shirdi Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 8th, 15th, 22ndand 29th October 2013 (Tuesdays).

8.      Tr.No. 17207 Sainagar Shirdi - Vijayawada Weekly Express will be augmented with two additional Sleeper Class Coaches o­n 9th, 16th, 23rdand 30th October 2013 (Wednesdays).

In all, 22 AC III Tier, 34­­­ Sleeper Class will be attached to the above trains.  These additional Coaches will make available 6,304 additional berths in order to clear extra rush and wait listed passengers.

Kochi: The newly-launched Punalur-Guruvayur fast passenger train service is a hit among passengers and the railways is considering a proposal to introduce two sleeper coaches in the daily train running at peak hour.

Kodikunnil Suresh MP “The Madurai divisional railway manager has forwarded the proposal to the Southern Railway headquarters, Chennai.

The Railway Board is likely to give its nod soon. Already, the Madurai-Kollam passenger has the reservation facility”.

The initiative was taken in the wake of many enquiries, particularly from elderly people, travelling to Guruvayur.

The timing is convenient for devotees to avoid overnight stay and is useful for office-goers.

The train covers the Thrissur-Kottayam stretch in the morning peak hour, said Suresh, who is also the minister of state for labour.

The train covers 294.6 km and has 27 halts. Train No 56366 Punalur-Guruvayur departs at 5.30 p.m. and arrives at the destination at 2.15 a.m.

Similarly, Train No 56365 Guruvayur-Punalur departs from Guruvayur at 6 a.m. and reaches the destination at 2.30 p.m.

Central Railway has decided to run 2 Air-conditioned Superfast special trains between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and Hazarat Nizamuddin to clear the extra rush of passengers.The details are as under –

02109 AC Superfast special train will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus on Tuesday 08.10.2013 at 14.30 hrs and arrive Hazarat Nizamuddin at 10.20 hrs next day. 02110 AC Superfast special train will leave Hazarat Nizamuddin on Wednesday 09.10.2013 at 15.50 hrs and arrive Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 11.50 hrs next day.

Halts: Nasik Road, Bhusawal, Bhopal, Jhansi, Gwalior and Agra Cantonement.

Composition: one AC First Class, Three AC-2 tier, Ten AC-3 tier, 2 Generators cum guard’s brake vans and one Pantry car.

Reservation: Bookings for train No. 02109 open from 04.10.2013.

Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday asked officials to ensure Phase 1 of the HyderabadMetro Rail (HMR) is completed by March 2015.

The Chief Minister unveiled the model coach of Hyderabad Metro on the Necklace Road here. The coach will be open for public viewing from Thursday.

He said HMR was the world's largest metro rail project under Public-Private Partnership mode. The project would be another jewel in Hyderabad’s crown along with the 160-km Outer Ring Road and P.V. Narasimha Rao Expressway, he said, adding these infrastructure ventures would ease traffic problems in Greater Hyderabadregion.

HMR covers three routes (corridors) having a length of 72 kms and will cost Rs 14,132 crore. The first 8-km stretch will be completed between Nagole and Mettuguda by the end of 2014 and is expected to be opened for traffic in March 2015.

Ministers Danam Nagender, M Mukesh Goud, Kasu Krishna Reddy and several senior bureaucrats and government officials were present at the function, where the coach was displayed.