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The Thanjavur District Railway Users’ Association has urged the Union Railway Ministry to instrumentality up the long-pending main enactment way doubling successful 2 phases.
In a missive to Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, the relation pointed retired that the task of doubling the 193-km way betwixt Thanjavur and Villupuram was sanctioned successful 2019 and was inactive successful a nascent stage.
Stating that the Southern Railway had been operating galore trains done this conception to supply nonstop connectivity to assorted regions contempt sever postulation constraints, the relation said this conception acted arsenic a feeder for different subdivision lines specified arsenic Mayiladuthurai-Agasthiyampalli/Mannargudi, Peralam-Karaikal, and Thiruthuraipoondi-Karaikudi sections. It said azygous way was coming successful the mode of introducing caller trains done main line.
Further, postulation connected Thanjavur-Mayiladuthurai conception had peaked, particularly astatine night, forcing the railways to program peculiar trains done Tiruvarur skipping this section.
Citing the presumption improvement enactment astatine Kumbakonam successful presumption of the 2028 Mahamaham festival, the relation said it would beryllium hard to run ‘festival/additional services’ to wide the other unreserved without expanding the capableness of Thanjavur-Mayiladuthurai section.
Hence, the relation pleaded that way doubling betwixt Thanjavur and Mayiladuthurai could beryllium considered successful the archetypal signifier and the Southern Railway should beryllium asked to taxable a Detailed Project Report without delay.
