Railways announces regularisation of Tiruchi - Charlapalli weekly express train

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South Central Railway has announced the regularisation of Charlapalli - Tiruchi - Charlapalli play peculiar trains. Consequent to its regularisation, the inter-State explicit volition beryllium operated arsenic Train No. 17077 / 17078 with effect from July 7.

The regular work of the explicit bid from Charlapalli will commence connected July 7 (on Tuesday), portion the regular work from the Tiruchi Junction volition travel successful to effect from July 8 (on Wednesday). The explicit trains volition beryllium operated connected the Tiruchi - Villupuram chord enactment conception with halts astatine Srirangam, Ariyalur, Vriddhachalam, Villupuram, Tirukkovilur, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore Cantonment, Katpadi, Chittoor, Tirupati, Renigunta, Gudur, Nellore, Ongole, Chirala, Bapatla, Tenali, Guntur, Sattenapalle, Nadikude, Miryalaguda and Nalgonda. 

As per the timings, the explicit bid from Charlapalli volition permission connected Tuesdays astatine 5.20 p.m. and scope Tiruchi Junction astatine 6.45 p.m. connected Wednesday.  In the instrumentality direction, the explicit bid volition depart from Tiruchi Junction connected Wednesdays astatine 9.30 p.m. and reach Charlapalli at 9.30 p.m. connected Thursdays.

The trains volition beryllium operated with 3 AC two-tier coaches, 5 AC three-tier coaches, 10 sleeper class, 4 wide 2nd people and 2 2nd people Divyangjan affable coaches. The beforehand preservation for the play peculiar bid volition unfastened astatine 8 a.m. connected May 26 from the Southern Railway end, a merchandise from the Tiruchi Division said.

MP welcomes

Tiruchi Lok Sabha MP Durai Vaiko has welcomed the announcement of the regularisation of the Tiruchi - Charlapalli weekly bid and thanked the Ministry of Railways for accepting his practice successful this regard. 

In a statement, Mr. Durai Vaiko said helium had sent abstracted representations to the Railway Minister and to the Divisional Railway Manager, Tiruchi successful March requesting to marque the explicit bid arsenic a imperishable work arsenic it had been serving passengers from Tiruchi and Srirangam by providing connectivity to important towns wrong the Tiruchi Division and to galore parts successful Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Making this work a imperishable bid would greatly payment passengers and further fortify inter-State connectivity, Mr. Durai Vaiko had mentioned successful the memorandum sent earlier.

The regularisation of the explicit volition summation the fig of originating inter-State explicit trains operated connected a imperishable ground from the Tiruchi Railway Division. The Tiruchi - Howrah explicit is being operated bi-weekly, portion the Tiruchi - Jodhpur and the Tiruchi - Shri Gangapur Humsafar explicit trains are being operated weekly. The Tiruchi - Thiruvananthapuram Intercity explicit is operated regular successful some directions.

Published - May 25, 2026 06:56 p.m. IST

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