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Engine of Kanyakumari-Rameswaram Express derails; none hurt
Posted by ganesh in Health, Information, Other, Railway, Transport, Virudhunagar, illegal on August 30th, 2010
Passengers of Rameswaram-bound Kanyakumari-Rameswaram Express (Train No: 2790) had a miraculous escape, as the engine of the train derailed between Sathur and Thulukkapatti in Virudhunagar district early today.
Railway sources said the mishap occurred at 0106 hrs at Venkatajalapuram village. No coaches derailed and all the passengers were safe.
The stranded passengers were moved by Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation (TNSTC) Buses from Sathur to Madurai from where they were sent to Rameswaram by a passenger train.
Senior railway officials, led by Additional Divisional Railway Manager (ADRM), Madurai Division C Venkatasubramanian rushed to the spot along with a technical team to restore the train services.
The cause of the accident was not known yet, sources adding investigation was on.
The railway police have launched an investigation to ascertain whether it was an act of sabotage to derail the train.
Meanwhile, a three-member railway technical team from Virudhunagar, which was rushed to the accident site for restoration work, met with a road accident.
An autorickshaw in which they were going to the site, collided with a speeding car in which gang man, Madurai, Veeran died on the spot, while three others, including the driver of the tri-wheeler sustained serious injuries.
The injured were rushed to Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) at Madurai and Government Hospital at Virudhunagar.
Southern Railway announced running of special trains to Ramzan
The Southern Railway today announced running of special trains to clear the extra rush of traffic during Ramzan.
Chennai Egmore-Nagercoil-Chennai Egmore Specials will leave here at 2020 hrs on September nine and 11 and arrive Nagercoil at 1100 hrs, the next day.
The Nagercoil-Chennai Egmore Special will leave Nagercoil at 1330 hrs on September 10 and 12 and arrive Chennai Egmore at 0425 hrs, the next day.
Chennai Central-Nagercoil Superfast Special and Nagercoil- Chennai Central Special (via Erode, Karur, Dindigul) will leave here at 2330 hrs on September eight and arrive Nagercoil at 1400 hrs, the next day.
The Nagercoil-Chennai Central Special will leave Nagercoil at 1615 hrs on September nine and arrive Chennai Central at 0815 hrs, the next day.
The Chennai Central-Mangalore Central-Chennai Central Special will leave here at 2035 hrs on September eight and arrive Mangalore Central at 1330 hrs the next day.
The Mangalore-Chennai Central Special will leave Mangalore Central at 1725 hrs on September nine and arrive Chennai Central at 1000 hrs, the next day. The Chennai Central-Mangalore Central-Chennai Central Specials (via Coimbatore) will leave here at 2035 hrs on September 10 and arrive Mangalore Central at 1330 hrs, the next day.
The Mangalore-Chennai Central Special will leave Mangalore Central at 1415 hrs on September 12 and arrive Chennai Central at 0745 hrs, the next day.
The Chennai Central-Tirunelveli-Chennai Central Specials (via Chennai Egmore, Villupuram, Vriddhachalam) will leave here at 1930 hrs on September eight and arrive Tirunelveli at 0935 hrs, the next day.
The Tirunelveli-Chennai Central Special will leave Tirunelveli at 1455 hrs on September nine and arrive Chennai Central at 0500 hrs, the next day.
The Nagercoil-Chennai Egmore Superfast Special and Chennai Egmore Nagercoil Special will leave Nagercoil at 1700 hrs on September 12 and arrive Chennai Egmore at 0605 hrs, the next day.
The Chennai Egmore-Nagercoil Special will leave here at 1440 hrs on September 13 and arrive Nagercoil at 0535 hrs, the next day.
Advance reservation for the above trains will commence tomorrow,a Southern Railway release said today.
Queen’s Baton Relay enters Madurai on Tuesday
Posted by ganesh in Information, Railway, Sports, competition, function, games, programme on August 26th, 2010
The Queen’s Baton Relay (QBR) Torch for the XIXth Commonwealth Games entered Madurai on Tuesday. The torch, brought from Ramanathapuram, was received by Collector C. Kamaraj at around 1.p.m.from Wing Commander V.N.Singh, the relay commander.
The 66.4 cm-high baton, weighing 1.9 kg, carried Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s message for the athletes, engraved on a miniature 18-carat gold leaf, representative of the ancient Indian ‘patras.’
The relay run started from Teppakulam at around 4.30 p.m.
The Collector handed over the torch to weightlifter Balamuruganandam, an Arjuna Awardee and sprinter Natarajan, a national record holder.
The run passed through PTR Bridge, Anna Nagar and KK Nagar before it reached MGR Stadium in Race Course.
Meanwhile, over 19,000 people had visited the Commonwealth Express stationed at Madurai railway station on Monday and Tuesday,
SR One coach of Chennai-bound Goods train derails Jolarpet
One coach of a Chennai-bound goods train derailed near Jolarpettai station on the Chennai-Katpadi section of Southern Railway this morning.
Railway sources said the eighth coach from the engine derailed resulting in delay of two outgoing trains from Chennai Central, which were detained and cleared at several signals.
The Chennai-Coimbatore Kovai Express and the Bangalore-bound Brindavan Express, left Central station at the scheduled time, but was detained midway at several signals.
After a delay of about an hour, the expresse trains crossed the derailment spot.
The derailment occurred around 0500 hrs and railway authorities cleared the track by around 0800 hrs.
However, the arrival of long distance trains to Chennai was not affected.
Chennai Metro Rail project is extended up to Tiruvottiyur
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Health, Information, Railway, Transport, government on August 19th, 2010
The Chennai Metro Rail project is all set to be extended up to Tiruvottiyur in north Chennai. The extension, estimated to cost Rs.2,200 crore, will take Corridor-I of the Metro Rail (Chennai Airport-Washermenpet) a further nine km. Seven new Metro stations would come up in the extended stretch.
A draft detailed project report (DPR), prepared by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), cited the extension to be “technically feasible” based on a traffic pattern study. Based on the report, a high-powered committee, chaired by the Chief Secretary, has given an in principle approval. The final decision rests with the State Cabinet. The proposal will then move on to the Ministry of Urban Development, which is a funding partner.
Senior officials of the State government said that the project is definitely going through and only “the modalities of relocating the sewer lines, TNEB installations and water supply lines have to be worked out”.
According to the DPR, the proposed alignment will have stations in Korukkupet, Tondiarpet, Toll Gate, Thangal, Gowri Ashram, Tiruvottiyur and Wimco Nagar.
The corridor runs up to Wimco Nagar, which is about half a kilometre from Tiruvottiyur, to provide a linkage with the Chennai Central – Gummidipoondi suburban section of the Southern Railway.
Integration is also planned at the proposed Toll Gate and the Tiruvottiyur Metro stations with the existing bus depots.
A two-level station design has been proposed in both the elevated and underground sections. While one level will serve as the station platform, the open space available in the other level will be used to develop ‘traffic integration areas’.
The segment from Washermenpet to Korukkupet will be underground and beyond that the Metro will continue as an elevated corridor. Of the nine kilometres, 2.3 km will be underground and 6.6 km elevated.
The alignment, for the most part, runs along the median of Tiruvottiyur High Road.
Since the width of the road is as less as 11 metres at some locations and it has many sharp curves, there is going to be a “degree of land acquisition impact”, said an official.
The two Metro corridors, Corridor-I (Chennai Airport to Wimco Nagar via Chennai Central) and Corridor-II (St.Thomas Mount to Chennai Central), are expected to cater to 13 lakh commuters a day by 2026.
Southern Railways announced special trains in Velankanni Festival
Posted by ganesh in Festivals, Health, Information, Nagapattinam, Railway, Transport, function on August 7th, 2010
The Southern Railways today announced special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers in connection with the famous Velankanni Festival.
A Railway release here said the Chennai Egmore-Nagapattinam Special would leave here on September 6 at 2245 hrs and arrive at Nagapattinam at 0745 hrs the next day.
The Nagapattinam-Dadar Special would leave Nagapattinam at 2330 hrs on September 8 and reach Dadar at 1400 hrs on September 10.
The Advance reservation for these trains would commence on August 8.
Specially-abled protest Railways’ decision, observe hunger strike in Chennai
Posted by ganesh in Chennai, Communication, Departments, Health, Information, Other, Public, Railway, Transport, government, programme on May 6th, 2010
Specially-abled persons in Tamil Nadu staged a demonstration on Wednesday to protest the decision of Indian Railways making the disabled-friendly coaches open for general public.
Members of the Federation of Tamil Nadu Handicapped Association went on a hunger strike to protest the move here, demanding that disabled-friendly coaches should be made open for their exclusive use again.
“The Railway Department has converted the reservation coaches (reserved for specially-abled persons) into unreserved coaches (open to general public), which is very unfortunate. This move of the Railway Department is condemnable and we need to see that the railway should retract this, and till then we are not going to give up this fight and we will move forward, and make the whole Railway Department stand still,” said Govindakrishnan, member of Federation Of Tamil Nadu Handicapped Association.
Protestors said they are facing problems after the coaches have been made open to everyone.
They rued that they have been protesting for nine months but their representations have not been heeded.
“The specially-disabled coaches with disabled people have suddenly been made into a reservation compartment (where anyone can reserve seats) and we don’t want that to be a reservation compartment. We want that as an unreserved compartment for the disabled people, and for this we have been fighting for a very long time, say, for about nine months. We have made several representations and everything has gone into vain. So, till that retraction of the decision comes across we are not going to withdraw our hunger strike. We are going to continue for that,” said Deepak, a member of Federation Of Tamil Nadu Handicapped Association.
Rally and live demonstrations were Electrical Safety Week
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Health, Information, Public, Railway, Transport, Trichy, government, programme on May 4th, 2010
A rally and live demonstrations were organised at the Divisional Railway Manager’s office campus of the Southern Railway here as part of the Electrical Safety Week.
A rally of the railway officials and employees led by S. Subrahmanyan, Divisional Railway Manager, was conducted in the DRM office campus to create awareness on electrical safety to the employees and the DRM released a pamphlet on electrical safety as also the measures to prevent electrical accidents. Additionally, the pamphlet contained the safety check-list for electrical systems in various categories.
A live demonstration was conducted on how to safeguard a person who was electrocuted and also to save a person in an unconscious stage due to electric shock. Several first aid procedures and safety aspects were also explained during the live demonstration.
The function was attended among others by M. Selvaraj, Additional Divisional Railway Manager and U. Shankar, Divisional Electrical Engineer, Southern Railway.
Madurai Aavin a modern milk parlour at the railway station
Posted by ganesh in Communication, Departments, Information, Madurai, Public, Railway, Transport, businesses, government, programme on April 28th, 2010
The Madurai Aavin Union is setting up a modern milk parlour at the railway station here at an estimated cost of Rs. 1.5 lakh. The parlour, which is likely to be completed in a day or two, is located on platform 2-3.
Official sources told The Hindu here on Tuesday that the parlour would remain open round-the-clock. It would house all Aavin products from milk to sweets.
The Madurai Union, formally known as Madurai District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union, was running a low-key parlour at the station junction since 2007. However, it was demolished as renovation and construction work was taken up by at the station.
In view of the brisk business performance of the earlier parlour, the Madurai Aavin decided to revive the facility in a big way. The Southern Railway provided a detailed sketch, on the basis of which the union constructed the parlour, sources said.
A senior official said that travellers could also buy sweets at the parlour, to be operated by a concessionary for a specific lease period.
The inauguration is likely to be in May.
Speaking about the procurement levels of Madurai Aavin, officials said that after a dip owing to intense summer heat, milk procurement had picked up by 10,000 litres a day in recent times and touched 1.85 lakh litres following some respite provided by rain.
39 Retired Railway employees Accident free service award
Posted by ganesh in Award, Coimbatore, Departments, Health, Information, Railway, Transport, function, government on April 27th, 2010
Thirtynine retired Railway employees were given Accident free service award, at a function organised by Southern Railway, Palakkad Division.
The awardees belonged to the categories of Station Master, points man and loco pilot, railway release said today.
The awards carrying cash (total sum of Rs.8.24 lakh) and merit certificate were handed over by S K Raina, Divisional Railway Manager, Palakkad, at the function, organised by the Safety Organisation of Southern Railway,
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