The Southern Railways’ timely initiative to launch a website exclusively for the outstation Sabarimala pilgrims has turned out to be a huge success, according to the Railway officials. As the Mandalakalam (the pilgrimage season) drew to a close on Wednesday, the website, www.railyatri.in/sabarimala, launched by the Southern Railway four weeks ago, has proved to be … Read more
With the railways planning to begin its own online ticketing services next year, ticketing agents may have to run for their money. The plan is already in the trial stages, according to senior railway officials.Now, tickets are booked at the railway reservation counters in stations or online via the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation … Read more
The Railway Ministry has announced a daily passenger train service from Mannargudi to Tiruchy from New Year, DMK Parliamentary leader TR Baalu said here on Thursday. According to a statement, Baalu said that the Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi spoke to him over telephone to inform that his demand for the passenger train between these two … Read more
A preliminary engineering-cum-traffic survey for a new broad gauge line between Mysore-Kushalnagar-Madikeri will begin on December 31. Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa will unveil a plaque to announce the commencement of the survey at Government Model Primary School in Kushalnagar at 12.15 noon. The survey on the 110 kilometres railway line was announced … Read more
A couple of Chennai-bound long-distance trains had to be partially cancelled while some other trains suffered detention midway in the Villupuram–Tiruchi chord line section following the cyclonic storm. Some trains were cancelled owing to heavy downpour coupled with strong winds.Tiruchi–Chennai Egmore Pallavan Express that left Tiruchi at the scheduled time on Friday morning could not … Read more
The preliminary survey work for a new broad gauge line between Mysore-Kushalnagar-Madikere (110 km) will commence from Kushalnagar on Saturday.Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa will unveil the plaque to inaugurate the survey works at 12.15 p.m.Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly K.G. Bopaiah, Mysore MP, A.H. Vishwanath, Minister for Medical Education S.A. Ramdas, … Read more
WR TO TEMPORARILY AUGMENT 8 TRAINS TO ACCOMMODATE MORE PASSENGERS THIS FESTIVE SEASON To create more accommodation on its trains during this festive season Western Railway is attaching additional coaches in 8 trains on temporary basis thereby creating additional carrying capacity The details of augmented trains are as under : Sr. No. Train No. & … Read more
Southern Railway has opened three more special information centres at Chennai Egmore for passengers to know about cancellations/rescheduling of train services due to the effects of the cyclone. The numbers are 044-28194533/29015202/29015203. These are in addition to the two centres set up at Chennai Central and the one at Egmore since Thursday.
Several of the railway projects in Karnataka, including the doubling of the Bangalore-Mysore line, which have been languishing for over a decade owing to land acquisition related issues, are expected to be speeded up with the State Government assuring the Railways that the required land will be handed over in about a month.Sources in the … Read more
New Year 2012 will bring bad news for certain sections of the industry as the government has decided to impose a 10% service tax on movement of freight through railways from January 1. The tax will impact prices of coal, steel, iron ore and cement if companies that mine or manufacture these commodities decide to … Read more
