To speed up work on Tambaram line, S Rly to run fewer locals

To speed up work on Tambaram line, S Rly to run fewer locals

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:23.02.2021

Suburban commuters on Tambaram-Beach-Chengalpet-Kancheepuram-Arakkonam route may have to start earlier than usual to reach their workplaces on time as railways has cut down on the number of trains on the route for 18 days from February 24 to March 13. The railways will carry out work to lay the third line between Tambaram and Chengalpet during the window.

Around 80 trains will be operated daily on the Beach-Tambaram route with a peak-hour frequency of 15 minutes as against 10 minutes. There will be around 30 trains from Chengalpet to Kancheepuram or Thirumalpur. There will be fewer trains during the afternoon and late in the evening, said an official.

More than 100 trains are run on the route a day.

From Beach, the first train to Chengalpet will be at 3.50am, to Thirumalpur at 5.10am, to Arakkonam at 9.10am. The last train to Tambaram will be at 11.59pm, to Chengalpet at 10.30pm and to Thirumalpur at 7.55pm. The first train from Chengalpet to Arakkonam will start at 8.20am. The first train from Tambaram to Beach will be at 3.55am, from Chengalpet to Beach at 4.20am and from Arakkonam to Beach via Thirumalpur and Kancheepuram at 4.45am.

An official said laying of the third line at Tambaram yard which will lead to “restrictions and cross movement”. Most of the work for the line from Tambaram to Chengalpet has been completed and the final stage work to link it to the yard is going to be taken up in the coming days. The deadline to complete the line is next month, the official said. Southern Railway received ₹60.54 crore for the work in the 2021-22 budget.

Railways will run 80 suburban trains with a peak-hour frequency of one local every 15 minutes