No time curbs for women to travel on suburban trains

No time curbs for women to travel on suburban trains

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:25.05.2021

Southern Railway has allowed more categories of people including women to travel by suburban trains and has increased the number of services from 478 to 630 on weekdays from Friday.

Women will be allowed without time restrictions. They will be issued return tickets while men who work in non-essential sectors will be allowed only during nonpeak hours (early morning to 7am and 9.30am to 4.30pm and 7pm onwards) with single journey tickets.

Passengers with a reserved ticket in a mail/express trains will also be allowed to travel in suburban trains to reach railway stations to board trains.

People who reach the city by mail/express trains will also be allowed to board suburban trains.

Those who work in state government or Union government departments, public sector units, high courts and courts and staff of the private sector will be allowed to travel with a permission letter and identity cards.

There will be no change in the number of trains on Sundays, said a press release.

There will be 123 services on Moore Market Complex - Avadi/Tiruvallur/Arakkonam/Tiruttani route, 126 services on Tiruttani/Arakkonam/Tiruvallur/Avadi - Moore Market Complex route.

There will be 42 services on Moore Market Complex - Gummidipoondi /Sullurupeta route, 42 services on Sullurupeta / Gummidipoondi - Moore Market Complex route, 116 services on Chennai Beach – Tambaram/Chengalpet/Tirumalpur route, 116 services on Tirumalpur/Chengalpet/Tambaram - Chennai Beach route, 33 services on Chennai Beach - Velachery route, 32 services on Velachery - Chennai Beach route.