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Minister for Roads and Buildings, Infrastructure, and Investments B.C. Janardhan Reddy formally flagged disconnected Train No. 17425/17426 Tirupati – Sainagar Shirdi – Tirupati Weekly Express, present connected Tuesday (December 09, 2025).
District Collector S. Venkateswar, MLC Balli Kalyan Chakravarthy, Tirupati MLA Arani Srinivasulu, TTD spot committee members G. Bhanuprakash Reddy and Sanjay Kumar Srivastava were besides contiguous astatine the programme.
Simultaneously, Union Minister of State for Railways V. Somanna, Rajya Sabha subordinate M. Raghunatha Reddy and Tirupati MP M. Gurumoorthy participated successful the lawsuit done a video-conference from New Delhi.
According to reports, the bid connects 2 spiritual destinations and is apt to beforehand spiritual tourism and volition traverse done 4 States – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
The bid starts from Tirupati presumption connected Sunday astatine 04:00 a.m. to scope Sainagar Shirdi (Maharashtra) astatine 10:45 a.m. connected Monday. In the instrumentality journey, the bid starts astatine 07:35 p.m. connected Monday to scope Tirupati astatine 01:30 a.m. connected Wednesday. The bid consists of eighteen coaches, including 2 AC 2-tier coaches, 4 AC 3-tier coaches, six sleeper coaches and 4 wide coaches.
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Somanna called it a ‘historic day’ for passengers intending to question betwixt the 2 spiritual destinations, arsenic the bid covers 31 stops, including large cities similar Nellore, Guntur, Secunderabad, Bidar and Manmad. “Apart from Tirupati and Shirdi, the bid besides provides connectivity to the celebrated Shiva temple astatine Parli Vaijnath successful Maharashtra,” helium added.
Highlighting the improvement of railways successful Andhra Pradesh since 2014, Mr. Somanna pointed to the summation of 1,580 km of newly-electrified railway track, redevelopment of 73 stations nether AMRIT with an outlay of ₹3,125 crore, operation of 800 flyovers and bridges, 110 lifts and 40 escalators, too the instauration of sixteen Vande Bharat (eight pairs) trains and six Amrit Bharat (three pairs).
Regarding improvement successful Tirupati region, helium pointed to the improvement of Tirupati presumption nether AMRIT with ₹312 crore, doubling successful Tirupati–Pakala–Katpadi section, instauration of 3rd enactment successful Renigunta–Gudur and Gudur-Vijayawada sections and laying of a caller enactment successful Srikalahasti–Nadikudi section.
