Following initiatives announced in the Railway Budget 2013 for Tamil Nadu, let’s see how many actually come to effect…. (we are still waiting for the Chennai Bengaluru Double Decker Train to start (it was announced in 2012 Budget) ):<\/p>\n
New Lines<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1) Sriperambudur-Guduvanchery with spur to Irunkattukotti-Avadi Doubling<\/strong><\/span> Surveys<\/strong><\/span> For doubling<\/strong> New Trains<\/strong><\/span> MEMU<\/strong><\/span> Extension of existing Trains<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n 1) 16127\/16128 Chennai-Madurai portion of Chennai-Guruvayur Express to Tuticorin Increase in Freq.<\/strong><\/span> Gauge Conversion projects to be completed in 2012-13<\/strong><\/span> Doubling projects to be completed in 2012-13<\/strong><\/span> Sections to be Electrified in 2012-13<\/strong><\/span> New Line projects to be completed in 2013-14<\/strong><\/span> Gauge Conversion projects to be completed in 2013-14<\/strong><\/span> Sections proposed to be doubled in 2013-14<\/strong><\/span> Why cann’t they just focus on doubling a single route before they start working on the other routes? This way at least the that work will get all the funds and be able to see the light of the day and start earning for the railways… Currently many projects are announced and piece-meal funds allotment is made, making it highly impossible to make any progress… it takes years to complete the projects… If Railways where to prioritise and focus their funds & energies on 1 or 2 projects before other projects are taken up it would help everybody… Following initiatives announced in the Railway Budget 2013 for Tamil Nadu, let’s see how many actually come to effect…. (we are still waiting for the Chennai Bengaluru Double Decker Train to start (it was announced in 2012 Budget) ): New Lines 1) Sriperambudur-Guduvanchery with spur to Irunkattukotti-Avadi 2) Thanjavur-Pattukkottai 3) Karaikal-Peralam (line existed long ago) … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,260,263,264,261],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings-in-india","tag-new-trains-for-tamil-nadu-in-2013","tag-railway-budget-2013","tag-railways-tamil-nadu","tag-southern-railways-india","tag-tamil-nadu-railway-budget-2013"],"views":2029,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirukkalgal.pathipagam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) Thanjavur-Pattukkottai
\n3) Karaikal-Peralam (line existed long ago)<\/p>\n
\n1) Chennai Central-Basin Bridge Junction (5th & 6th lines);<\/p>\n
\nFor New Lines<\/strong>
\n1) Aloor-Nagarcoil-Chettikulam
\n2) Karaikkudi-Dindigul
\n3) Karaikkudi-Madurai (updating)
\n4) Morappur-Dharmapuri (updating)
\n5) Thanjavur-Ariyalur (Updating)
\n6) Tirunelveli-Sankarankoil via Pettai,Pudur,SendamaramVeerasigmamani<\/p>\n
\n1) Tirupati – Katpadi<\/p>\n
\n1) Chennai \u2013 Karaikudi Express (Weekly)
\n2) Chennai \u2013 Palani Express (Daily) Via Jolarpettai, Salem, Namakkal,\u00a0Karur (probably the 1st passenger service on Salem Namakkal Karur line)
\n3) Chennai Egmore \u2013 Thanjavur Express (Daily) Via Villupuram,Mayiladuthurai
\n4) Chennai \u2013 Nagarsol (For Sai Nagar Shirdi) Express (Weekly) Via Renigunta, Dhone, Kacheguda
\n5) Chennai \u2013 Velankanni Link Express (Daily) Via Villupuram,Mayiladuthurai, Tiruvarur
\n6) Coimbatore \u2013 Mannargudi Express (Daily) Via Tiruchchirappalli, Thanjavur, Nidamangalam
\n7) Coimbatore \u2013 Rameswaram Express (Weekly)
\n8) Howrah \u2013 Chennai AC Express (Bi-weekly) Via Bhadrak, Duvvada, Gudur
\n9) Nagercoil \u2013 Bangalore Express (Daily) Via Madurai,Tiruchchirappalli
\n10) Puducherry \u2013 Kanniyakumari Express (Weekly) Via Villupuram, Mayiladuthurai, Tiruchchirappalli
\n11) Tirupati \u2013 Puducherry Express (Weekly)
\n12)\u00a0 Palani-Tiruchendur Passenger (Daily)<\/p>\n
\n1) Chennai \u2013 Tirupati<\/p>\n
\n2) 12605\/12606 Chennai-Tiruchchirappalli Express to Karaikudi
\n3) 12653\/12654 Mangalore \u2013 Tiruchchirappalli Express to Puducherry
\n4) 56513\/56514 Bangalore-Nagore Passenger to Karaikal
\n5) 56700\/56701Madurai-Kollam Passenger to Punalur
\n6) 56709\/56710 Madurai-Dindigul Passenger to Palani
\n7) 76837\/76838 Karaikudi-Manamadurai DEMU to Virudunagar after gauge conversion<\/p>\n
\n1) 22615\/22616 Coimbatore-Tirupati Express 3 to 4 days
\n2) 12687\/12688 Madurai \u2013 Dehradun\/Chandigarh Express 1 to 2 days (Surprisingly this train is yet to be introduced – it was the extension of Chennai – Dehradun\/Chandigard Express)
\n3) 56321 Kanniyakumari-Tirunelveli Passenger 6 to 7 days
\n4) 56325 Nagercoil \u2013 Kanniyakumari Passenger 6 to 7 days
\n5) 56312 Tirunelveli – Nagercoil Passenger 6 to 7 days<\/p>\n
\n1) Pollachi-Kinattukkadavu of Pollachi-Podanur
\n2) Muthalamada-Palakkad of Pollachi-Palakkad
\n3) Sengottai-Bhagavathipuram<\/p>\n
\n1) Ariyalur-Kallakkudi Palanganatham
\n2) Attipattu-Ennore 4th line
\n3) Melmaruvthur-Tozhuppedu
\n4) Ottivakkam-Madurantakam
\n5) Tindivanam-Perani<\/p>\n
\n1) Kanniyambadi-Vellore Cantt
\n2) Shoranur-Elattur<\/p>\n
\n1) Walajah Road-Arcot<\/p>\n
\n1) Minakshivaram-Palakkad<\/p>\n
\n1) Golden Rock byepass
\n2) Ottivakkam-Karunguzhi
\n3) Tiruvottiyur-Ennore
\n4) Tozhuppedu-Olakur-Tindivanam
\n5) Ulundurpet-Parikkal
\n6) Vridhachalam Jn to Ulundurpet<\/p>\n
\nOther announcements:<\/strong>
\n30 services in Chennai to be converted to 12-car<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"