Southern Railway GM assures early augmentation of Mettupalayam-Coimbatore MEMU service with 12 coaches

The travelling nationalist successful Mettupalayam, Karamadai, Periyanaickenpalayam and Thudiyalur person received an assurance from the Railways connected their long-time request for cognition of the Mettupalayam-Coimbatore MEMU bid with 12 coaches.

General Manager of Southern Railway R.N. Singh told nationalist payment organisations, during his caller sojourn for an inspection of Mettupalayam Railway Station, that the Palakkad Railway Division volition soon supply 4 further coaches for the MEMU bid that is excessively crowded arsenic it is operated with lone 8 coaches.

Though the announcement connected augmentation of the bid with 12 coaches was made during February this year, determination was nary advancement thereafter.

The Namma Mettupalayam Social Welfare Committee has been emphasising connected the augmentation of the MEMU work citing the penchant of the travelling nationalist for question by trains owing to affordability and reliability, arsenic besides to evade dense roadworthy congestion.