Train service begins in Pattukottai- Karaikudi BG section
Special Correspondent
Tiruchi, July 03, 2018 00:00 IST
It resumes after five years
More than five years after trains services were stopped on the Pattukottai - Karaikudi section, the Tiruchi Railway Divisional authorities resumed regular services in the newly converted broad gauge stretch on Monday.
A Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train was operated from Karaikudi in the morning which reached Pattukottai in the afternoon. The same train left Pattukottai and arrived at Karaikudi at around 7.10 p.m.
As per the present timing announced by the Southern Railway authorities, the bi-weekly passenger train would be operated on Monday and Thursday for a period of three months on experimental basis. The passenger special train would take over six hours in both directions.
Railway sources said the DEMU special train was being run with Travelling Gatekeepers on board in both directions at present due to shortage of manpower for manning the level crossing gates falling along the stretch. The sources said this was the reason for the long journey time taken in this stretch. Services were stopped in this section in late 2012 for conversion into broad gauge. Delay in resumption of train services post clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety in early March this year, irked locals who kept demanding resumption of services. The train has seven stoppages en route including Peravurani, Aranthangi and Periyakottai.
Special Correspondent
Tiruchi, July 03, 2018 00:00 IST
It resumes after five years
More than five years after trains services were stopped on the Pattukottai - Karaikudi section, the Tiruchi Railway Divisional authorities resumed regular services in the newly converted broad gauge stretch on Monday.
A Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train was operated from Karaikudi in the morning which reached Pattukottai in the afternoon. The same train left Pattukottai and arrived at Karaikudi at around 7.10 p.m.
As per the present timing announced by the Southern Railway authorities, the bi-weekly passenger train would be operated on Monday and Thursday for a period of three months on experimental basis. The passenger special train would take over six hours in both directions.
Railway sources said the DEMU special train was being run with Travelling Gatekeepers on board in both directions at present due to shortage of manpower for manning the level crossing gates falling along the stretch. The sources said this was the reason for the long journey time taken in this stretch. Services were stopped in this section in late 2012 for conversion into broad gauge. Delay in resumption of train services post clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety in early March this year, irked locals who kept demanding resumption of services. The train has seven stoppages en route including Peravurani, Aranthangi and Periyakottai.
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