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Demand for making the Rameswaram weekly special train into a permanent service.
The Railway Struggle Committee members, led by its Chairman and Coimbatore MP P.R. Natarajan and Convenor of the committee G.K. Nagaraj, will send telegrams from the Central Telegraph Office here to the Southern Railway General Manager at 11 a.m. on Friday.The telegrams would urge the Southern Railway to convert the Coimbatore – Rameswaram – Coimbatore weekly special train into a permanent service with enhanced frequency.

Weekly special train
The weekly special train, introduced for the second time, is scheduled to have its last run (as per the schedule) on June 23 from Coimbatore and on June 24 from Rameswaram.Mr.Nagaraj pointed out that the train, introduced in 2011 as a weekly special, was withdrawn and not made into a permanent service despite encouraging patronage.

Second time
The weekly special train was introduced for the second time in April and scheduled to run till June 23/24. With hardly 10 days to go for the last run, there has not been any announcement to convert the train into a permanent service.The train, with second sleeper, AC two-tier and AC three-tier coaches, was in fact catering to the travel needs of nearly 1,000 passengers per week in either direction.

Suspended
Coimbatore earlier had a train to these southern districts on the meter gauge section via Pollachi, Palani, Dindigul and Madurai.The services were suspended when the section was taken up for gauge conversion. The introduction of the Rameswaram train via Erode, Karur, and Tiruchirapalli section was only a restoration of the facility that Coimbatore had once.

Daily train
Not just people in Coimbatore alone but all the users of this train and those waiting for a permanent and daily train to Rameswaram will send telegrams to the Southern Railway.The struggle committee expected more than 1,000 telegrams to be sent to make the Southern Railway realise the needs of the people in this region.