The Divisional Railway Users’ Consultative Committee has urged the Tiruchi Railway Division authorities to widen the greeting Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi Electric Multiple Unit (MEMU) Express (16833) to Karaikal via Peralam and Thirunallar.
In a memorandum to the Divisional Railway Manager, Tiruchi, V.R. Dhanaseelane, subordinate of the committee who hails from Karaikal, sought the hold of the explicit bid arsenic determination was nary greeting bid work from Karaikal to Tiruchi. The Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi MEMU Express leaves Mayiladuthurai astatine 7.45 a.m.
Mr. Dhanaseelane suggested that the divisional authorities could docket the departure of the bid from Karaikal astatine 6.30 a.m. to Tiruchi via Mayiladuthurai. The hold would payment not lone travellers of Karaikal but besides those successful enroute areas of Thirunallar and Peralam.
The Southern Railway, which utilized to run a Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) greeting bid work astatine 6.30 a.m. from Karaikal to Tiruchi, suspended it during the COVID play and the work had not been resumed till date.
The suspension of the Karaikal-Tiruchi DEMU work caused sizeable inconvenience to the regular commuters from Karaikal, helium said and added that the Mayiladuthurai-Tiruchi Express (16833) could beryllium extended up to Karaikal since determination was nary greeting bid from Karaikal to Tiruchi.
Mr. Dhanaseelane requested the railway authorities to run trains via Karaikal, Thirunallar, Peralam, Mayiladuthurai, Kuthalam, Aduthurai, Kumbakonam, Papanasam, and Thanjavur to Tiruchi from October to January successful presumption of the upcoming Deepavali, Christmas, New Year, and Pongal festivals. The authorities could run peculiar trains betwixt Villupuram and Karaikal.
He requested the authorities to physique flyovers astatine 3 level-crossing gates astatine Karaikal arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to easiness postulation congestion.
