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  Indian Railways News  / Board examining plea for introducing train to Rameswaram

Railway Board Chairman Vinay Mittal in a letter to Coimbatore MP P.R. Natarajan has stated that the request for operating a train from Coimbatore to Rameswaram via Erode and Tiruchirapalli was being examined.Southern Railway had earlier operated special trains from Coimbatore to Rameswaram via Erode, Karur and Tiruchirapalli connecting seven districts.It provided connectivity for district headquarters such as Tirupur, Erode, Karur, Tiruchirapalli, Sivaganga and Ramanathapuram besides to places such as Chettinadu, Thirupullani, Erwadi and the temple town of Rameswaram.The first special train was discontinued after three months on October 8, 2011 despite public protest and representation. The same was re-introduced in 2012 and despite patronage it was once again discontinued on June 24 despite protests again. The train was only restoration of a lost benefit, after the Southern Railway discontinued the train services on the meter gauge section from Coimbatore to Southern districts via Pollachi, Udumalpet, Palani, Dindigul, Madurai, when the section was taken up for gauge conversion.Normally, Southern Railway used to introduce special trains by increasing their frequency and slowly turn them into permanent trains. But, the practice was not adhered to in terms of the Coimbatore – Rameswaram Express.

The MP and the Coimbatore Railway Struggle Committee had already presented representations to the Railway Minister, General Manager of Southern Railway and Divisional Railway Manager of Salem Division.

Patronage

Considering the importance of the train, the patronage it received and the fact that it was only a restoration of a train service that already existed, Mr. Natarajan exhorted the Railway Board to re-introduce the train as a permanent service with seven days a week frequency.

  Indian Railways News  / Power supply partially restored in Punjab, Haryana

Chandigarh, July 30 (IANS) Train services were partially resumed and power supply to some parts of Punjab and Haryana restored Monday after a complete power failure in the two states following a disruption in the entire Northern Grid, officials said here.
Power corporation officials in Punjab and Haryana said efforts were on to restore electricity supply to urban and rural areas.
Many trains, which got stranded at various stations and en-route, were being gradually move, a railway official of the Ambala division said. While some trains were attached with diesel engines and asked to proceed onward, power supply on the electrified routes was being restored to resume other train services, he said.
In Kurukshetra, the Kalka Howrah mail had been stranded since 2.30 a.m., when the Northern Grid failed.
Stranded passengers at Ambala, Kurukshetra, Rohtak, Karnal and other places in Haryana and Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Amritsar in Punjab could be seen taking buses and hiring taxis for their journey.
Power supply to industrial belts in Punjab and Haryana had not been restored till Monday morning, leaving thousands of workers without work on the first day of the week.
In Chandigarh, the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana, power supply had been restored to over 50 percent of the areas by 10 a.m., electricity department officials said.
The break down of the Northern Grid saw power supply being disrupted not just in Punjab and Haryana but also Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan and parts of Uttar Pradesh.

  Indian Railways News  / दो घंटे देरी से आएगी निजामुद्दीन इंटरसिटी

इंदौर।सोमवार दोपहर इंदौर आने वाली निजामुद्दीन-इंदौर इंटरसिटी एक्सप्रेस ट्रेन तय समय से लगभग दो घंटे देरी से इंदौर आने की संभावना है। ट्रेन के इंदौर आने का निर्धारित समय दोपहर 12 बजे का है, लेकिन सोमवार इसके दोपहर दो बजे तक इंदौर पहुंच सकती है।
रेलवे जनसंपर्क विभाग के मुताबिक उत्तर रेलवे के किसी पावर स्टेशन में समस्या के कारण बिजली सप्लाई बाधित हुई जिससे यह ट्रेन देरी से इंदौर पहुंचेगी। रेलवे स्टेशन पर ट्रेन के लेट होने का अनाउंसमेंट चल रहा है क्योंकि कई परिजन अपने यात्रियों को लेने स्टेशन पहुंच गए हैं। खबर लिखे जाने तक ट्रेन उज्जैन स्टेशन भी नहीं पहुंची थी।

  Indian Railways News  / Power failure: Train services severely hit, passengers stranded midway

Chandigarh: Train services were disrupted in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh due to collapse of the northern grid on Monday morning, leaving a large number of passengers stranded.       A number of passenger trains bound for Delhi and beyond, Chandigarh, Amritsar, Jammu, Ferozepur and Kalka were stranded at way side stations due to failure of electricity, a senior railway official said.     He said efforts were on to move the passenger trains with diesel engines after detaching them from running goods trains which would remain halted at way side railway stations.      The stations where passenger trains were stranded include Ambala, Kurukshetra, Phillaur, Sirhind, Ludhiana, Phagwara and Karnal.        Some trains were stranded mid way as the electric engines hauling them came to a halt due to failure of power at about 2.30 AM.      Kalka Chandigarh Delhi Shatabdi Express left the local station 90 minutes behind scheduled departure of 6.53 AM after a diesel engine was attached to it.       The trains affected include Amritsar Delhi Shatabdi Express, Allahabad Chandigarh Unchahaar, Lucknow Chandigarh Sadbhavna, Howraha Kalka Mail, Delhi Jammu Mail and a number of other super fast, express, passenger and local trains.       The official said that the signal system had also blanked at a number of places due to the power failure.

  Indian Railways News  / Girl killed as railway boundary wall collapses in Odisha

Bhubaneswar, July 30 (IANS) A 10-year-old girl was killed and four others, including her father, were critically injured after a portion of a boundary wall of a railway station collapsed Monday in Odisha, police said. The girl was going to the school along with her father on a motorbike when the boundary wall of the Khurdha railway station at Jatani, about 18 km from here, collapsed on them. The girl died at the spot, while her father and three other children, who too were on their way to the school, sustained injuries, police inspector Kishor Kumar Panighrahi told IANS. Train services were hit at the railway station as residents squatted on the track demanding a compensation of Rs.10 lakh for the family of the killed girl, added Kumar.