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Commuters successful the delta portion person sought further coaches successful the Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi-Mayiladuthurai MEMU Express (16833/16834) that runs via Thanjavur and Kumbakonam. The regular explicit bid runs with 8 MEMU cars. The fig of cars should beryllium accrued to 12 successful presumption of the precocious occupancy, they say.
Passengers accidental they look hardship successful getting accommodation while boarding enroute successful the train. The bid leaves Mayiladuthurai astatine 7.50 a.m. and reaches Tiruchi Junction astatine 10.15 a.m. with halts astatine Kuttalam, Aduthurai, Kumbakonam, Papanasam, Thanjavur, and Budalur. In the instrumentality direction, the bid departs Tiruchi Junction astatine 4.20 p.m. and reaches Mayiladuthurai astatine 6.50 p.m.
The greeting explicit bid from Mayiladuthurai is packed earlier reaching Kumbakonam and Thanjavur forcing commuters boarding from these 2 stations to basal and question to Tiruchi. It is the aforesaid communicative successful the instrumentality absorption erstwhile the bid leaves Tiruchi Junction successful the evening. The assemblage eases lone beyond Kumbakonam, says A. Giri, secretary, Thanjavur District Railway Users Association. It is clip the Southern Railway empathises with the passengers and adds much coaches to this explicit train, helium says.
The relation precocious sent a memorandum to the Chief Passenger Transportation Manager, Southern Railway, Chennai, successful this regard. Mr. Giri said successful the memorandum that this bid was introduced initially utilising the incoming rake of the Mysuru-Mayiladuthurai Express to service the needs of the regular commuters successful the delta region. With the Mysuru-Mayiladuthurai Express extended to Cuddalore Port Junction, the Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi bid was operated with accepted ICF coaches for a fewer months. Later, the accepted coaches were replaced and the bid is present tally arsenic an eight-car MEMU. Commuters person been demanding much coaches since the alteration implicit to MEMU rake and successful presumption of the precocious occupancy successful some directions, the memorandum said.
“The contiguous eight-car MEMU is insufficient to header with the assemblage arsenic the bid takes 150 minutes covering a region of 120 km,” Mr. Giri further said successful the memorandum.
