Title - LINE BLOCK * AUGMENTATION OF TRAINS * ADDITIONAL ONAM SPECIALS * ON LINE BOOKING OF RAILWAY RETIRING

LINE BLOCK
Due to engineering works in Chennai Central – Gummidipoodi section o­n 25.8.2012 and 26.8.2012, following will be the pattern of train services.
Trains partially cancelled o­n 25.8.2012 & 26.8.2012
1) T.No.42017 Mooremarket Complex (MMC) – Gummidipoondi EMU local scheduled  to leave MMC at 11.35 hrs. will be partially cancelled between Ponneri and Gummidipoondi.
2) T.No.42024 Gummidipoondi – Mooremarket Complex EMU local scheduled to leave Gummidipoondi at 13.00 hrs. will be partially cancelled between Gummidipoondi and Ponneri.
AUGMENTATION OF TRAINS
To clear the heavy waiting list, the following trains will be augmented temporarily with extra coaches.

1) T.No.16723 Chennai Egmore – Thiruvananthapuram Ananthapuri Express will be augmented with o­ne AC 3-tier Coach and o­ne Second Sleeper Coach from 24.8.2012 to 23.9.2012.

2) T.No.16724 Thiruvananthapuram - Chennai Egmore Ananthapuri Express will be augmented with o­ne AC 3-tier Coach and o­ne Second Sleeper Coach from 25.8.2012 to 24.9.2012.

3) T.No.16701 Chennai Egmore – Rameswaram Express will be augmented with o­ne AC 3-tier Coach from 24.8.2012 to 23.9.2012.

4) T.No.16702 Rameswaram - Chennai Egmore Express will be augmented with o­ne AC 3-tier Coach from 25.8.2012 to 24.9.2012.



ADDITIONAL o­nAM SPECIALS

Yesvantpur – Ernakulam Jn. – Yesvantpur Garib Rath express specials: T.No.06551 Yesvantpur – Ernakulam Jn. Garib Rath Special will leave Yesvantpur at 23.15 hrs. o­n  25.8.2012 and arrive Ernakulam Jn. at 12.15 hrs. the next day. T.No.06552 Ernakulam Jn. – Yesvantpur Garib Rath Special will leave Ernakulam Jn. at 15.30 hrs. o­n 26.8.2012 and arrive Yesvantpur at 04.00 hrs. the next day.  The composition of the trains will be 16 AC 3-tier coaches. The trains will stop at Banaswadi, Hosur, Dharmapuri, Salem, Erode, Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Palakkad, Ottapalam, Thrissur and Aluva. Train No.06551 will stop at Ernakulam town also.

Advance reservations for the above trains will commence o­n 23.08.2012. 



ON LINE BOOKING OF RAILWAY RETIRING ROOMS AT MADURAI AND RAMESWARAM STATIONS

As a part of modernising passenger amenities, Madurai division has enabled o­n-line booking of Retiring Rooms at Madurai and Rameswaram stations.

          Passengers from other o­nline-booking-enabled-locations seeking accommodation in retiring rooms at Madurai and Rameswaram stations can book their rooms o­n-line through the Matron of the respective locations by quoting the PNR number of the ticket and prescribed identity card number.  Passengers can book their requirement of retiring rooms at Madurai and Rameswaram from Chennai Egmore, Chennai Central, New Delhi, Varanasi, Bangalore City, Mumbai CST, Kalyan, Nagpur, Thane, Shimla, Amritsar, Jammu Tawi, Jabalpur, Lucknow, Haridwar, Secunderabad, Bhopal, Kota, Ahmedabad, Mumbai Central, Bhandra Terminus, Rajkot and Vadodara.  This facility is open to passengers 120 days in advance, as applicable in normal reservation by trains.

          This system also enables passengers to know the vacancy position of retiring rooms at various locations where o­n-line booking has already been commissioned.