Demand plummets post festive travel, railways to cancel trains
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:20.11.2020
With the festival season over, demand for trains has dropped as only those who were visiting family and friends have been travelling. Railways is now looking to cancel trains that don't have patronage.
Southern Railway has cancelled Chennai-Bengaluru-Chennai (02027/02028) Shatabdi special from November 21. The Chennai-Coimbatore Shatabdi too has been cancelled from December 2. The last service will be on November 30. The trains were being operated on all days except Tuesdays.
Most of the trains from Chennai to southern towns and to the cities in neighbouring states are running with several seats vacant. There are more empty berths or seats in air-conditioned coaches.
The Chennai-Madurai Tejas Express has 628 chair car seats and 33 executive chair car seats vacant this Friday and 766 chair car seats and 42 executive chair car seats are empty for travel on Monday. On the Madurai route, sleeper AC tickets are available for weekdays and so do trains to Kollam, Tuticorin, Tirunelveli and Bengaluru. The Chennai-Bengaluru double decker has more than 500 seats vacant on all days next week.
An official said that RAC or waitlist on weekends are getting confirmed closer to departure. This shows that people are booking but are hesitant to travel, he said.
Most trains to south TN have several empty seats
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