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The Railway Board has approved the summation successful frequence of the Rameswaram-Tirupati- Rameswaram Express (16780/16779) operated via Tiruchi. The tri-weekly work volition present run 4 days a week.
The Rameswaram-Tirupati Express (16780) volition run connected each Tuesday too, successful summation to Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, with effect from March 3. In the instrumentality direction, the bid (16799) volition run connected each Wednesday, successful summation to Monday, Friday, and Saturday, from March 4. There volition beryllium nary alteration successful the composition, timings, and stops.
MP welcomes determination
Tiruchi MP Durai Vaiko welcomed the summation successful the frequence of the service, on with the regularisation of the Tiruchi-Tambaram bid arsenic important developments which would payment the radical of Tiruchi.
Welcoming the move, A. Giri, caput of Thanjavur District Railway Users Association, said the nationalist request was to marque it a regular work ever since it was made a tri-weekly work 13 years agone aft the gauge conversion.
“The work was primitively operated betwixt Tiruchi and Tirupati earlier being extended to Madurai and Rameswaram and anterior to the gauge conversion, it was a regular service. The bid should beryllium restored arsenic a regular service,” Mr. Giri said.
Mr. Giri suggested flimsy modification successful the docket of the Rameswaram-Tirupati bid arsenic it reached Tirupati astatine 10.10 a.m. “Originally, it utilized to scope Tirupati astir 6 a.m. which was convenient for devotees,” Mr. Giri said and added that the departure from Rameswaram could beryllium somewhat precocious and the bid velocity could beryllium increased.
