Southern Railway asks its employees not to travel in first class, AC coaches without valid tickets

Siddharth Prabhakar| TNN | Oct 24, 2017, 09:36 IST

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CHENNAI: In the wake of complaints from passengers, the Southern Railway has issued an order asking its employees not to travel in first class suburban train coaches and in AC coaches of passenger and express trains without valid tickets.

In an order dated October 21, the senior divisional commercial manager of the Chennai Railway Division stated that priority of space should be given to passengers.

The issue had been raised at divisional rail users consultative committee meet a month ago. A member from Vellore had complained that railway union members were occupying AC coaches on the morning trains illegally and were also found smoking inside the compartments. No action had been taken against them and it caused inconvenience to passengers, the member had complained.