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The ongoing overhead electrification task successful the astir 150-km Tiruvarur-Thiruthuraipoondi-Pattukottai-Aranthangi-Karaikudi broadgauge conception has made brisk advancement with energisation betwixt Thiruthuraipoondi and Pattukottai scheduled this month.
This volition beryllium the past large conception successful Tiruchi Railway Division to beryllium electrified and would pave the mode for cognition of electrical locomotive hauled explicit trains. The Southern Railway Construction Organisation is executing the electrification task connected this agelong covering parts of Tiruvarur, Thanjavur, Pudukottai and Sivaganga districts making it 1 of the longest sections successful Tiruchi Division.
A elder Southern Railway authoritative said overhead electrification enactment successful the information betwixt Tiruvarur and Thirutharaipoondi has been completed and the agelong has been successfully energised. The Southern Railway issued a nationalist notification precocious informing that the overhead traction wires connected the BG enactment betwixt Thiruthuraipoondi and Pattukottai would beryllium energised connected November 30.
Height gauges person been erected astatine each level crossings fixing the maximum tallness astatine 4.78 metre supra the roadworthy level to forestall interaction with unrecorded traction ligament which is astatine a tallness of 5.5 metre supra the level crossings. The notification has cautioned the nationalist to instrumentality to the specified tallness bounds nether immoderate circumstances.
The authoritative said the overhead electrification enactment has commenced connected the last agelong from Pattukottai to Karaikudi via Aranthangi. Foundation activities and mast erection enactment is nether advancement connected this stretch. As portion of the project, traction substations are being established astatine Thiruthuraipoondi and Pattukottai. The approximate outgo of the electrification task from Tiruvarur to Karaikudi arsenic per revised estimation is ₹182.03 crore. The full enactment is targeted for completion by 2026-27, the authoritative said and added that it would beryllium the past large conception successful Tiruchi Division to beryllium electrified.
Although the Tiruvarur-Karaikudi conception was converted from metre gauge to wide gauge a fewer years ago, it was not electrified past owed to which explicit trains are being hauled by diesel locomotives. The overhead electrification connected this conception was sanctioned arsenic a abstracted project.
Meanwhile, Pattukottai Rail Users’ Association president V. Viveganantham has thanked the Southern Railway for completing electrification enactment betwixt Thiruthuraipoondi and Pattukottai and announcing the energisation of this agelong connected November 30.
