Tuesday, August 14, 2018

FASTER TRAVEL

S Rly speeds up 18 trains, suburban train timings tuned


TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:14.08.2018

Southern Railway has speeded up 18 trains with effect from August 15. Changes have been made with the running time schedules of Nagercoil-Mumbai and Tambaram-Tirunelveli Antyodaya Express decreasing by 60 minutes.

The Coimbatore-Chennai Central Shatabdi Express has been speeded up by 15 minutes while the train that will travel in the return direction has been speeded up by five minutes.

The Chennai-Madurai Pandian express has become faster by 10 minutes. In the return direction, it has been speeded up by five
minutes.

These were the highlights of the new railway time-table which was released by Southern Railway on Monday evening.

The Tambaram-Sengottai Antyodaya Express has been announced which will leave at 7am and reach Sengottai at 10:30pm and in the return direction it would leave at 6am and reach Tambaram at 10:15pm. The date of introduction of the train will be notified in a later period.

Guwahati – Chennai Egmore - Guwahati Weekly Express (15630/15629) and Dibrugarh-Chennai Egmore-Dibrugarh Weekly express (15930/159290 have been extended to Tambaram. The motive behind such a move is to decongest Egmore station.

In the suburban train time-table, 13 trains will start earlier than its usual.

For instance, the Tiruttani-Moore Market Complex (MMC) train at 1:15pm will leave 35 minutes earlier. The Arakkonam-MMC service at 9:25pm will leave 15 minutes earlier.

The Chennai Beach-Tiruvallur service at 5:35am and Chennai Beach-Velachery service at 4:40am will leave 10 minutes earlier.

Seven suburban trains will have a late start; for instance the Chengalpet-Beach service at 11:43am will leave late by 15 minutes, while the Kancheepuram-Beach service at 10:56am will leave 14 minutes later.

Chennai division of Southern Railway has also stopped the Beach to St Thomas Mount turn-back service and has extended the trains till Tambaram.

It would leave Beach at 8:32am and reach Tambaram at 9:27am, leave at 9:32am and reach Beach at 10:27am.

All the changes that have been made in the scheduling of the trains will be effective from August 15.

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