Southern Railway launches ‘Coast-to-Coast’ Parcel Express Train

Southern Railway has announced the motorboat of its intra-zonal ‘Coast to Coast’ Parcel Express Train, a time-tabled logistics work to connection fast, reliable, and cost-effective parcel question and logistics solution crossed Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

This initiative, being the first-of-its-kind successful Indian Railways, marks a important measurement towards strengthening determination parcel mobility connected Indian Railways.

The unsocial diagnostic of this work is earmarking of dedicated parcel coaches to each destination, ensuring organised parcel handling and management. The bid accommodates a wide scope of commodities including achromatic goods, perishables, user products, and concern materials. Competitive parcel rates supply important savings implicit roadworthy transport.

The Parcel Express services volition beryllium operated connected Fridays from Mangaluru Central and connected Tuesdays from Royapuram (Chennai). The work volition halt astatine Salem, Erode, Uttukkuli, Tiruppur, Coimbatore, Palakkad, Shoranur, Tirur, Kozhikkode, Thalassery, Kannur and Kasaragod, ensuring creaseless and businesslike loading and unloading crossed large commercialized centres.

The archetypal work is scheduled to depart connected December 12 from Mangaluru Central astatine 15.10 hrs and volition scope Royapuram ( Chennai) the adjacent time astatine 13.30 hrs. The instrumentality work is scheduled to depart connected December 16 astatine 15.45 hrs from Royapuram and volition scope Mangaluru Central astatine 14.20 hrs the adjacent day.