Madikeri: At a time when the residents and Green Groups of Kodagu are vehemently opposing the two Railway Lines (Thalassery-Mysuru via South Kodagu and Hunsur-Periyapatna-Kushalnagar-Madikeri-Mangaluru) cutting across the green and ecologically sensitive district, a new office of the South Western Railway (SWR) is coming up at Madikeri. The construction has raised the hackles of Green…
Mysuru: South Western Railway (SWR) has decided for permanent augmentation with one second class sleeper coach for Train No. 16527 Yesvantpur – Kannur Express with effect from Dec.20 and Train No. 16528 Kannur – Yesvantpur Express with effect from Dec.21. Train No. 16527/16528 Yesvantpur – Kannur – Yesvantpur Express will have the revised composition of…
Mysuru: Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will flag off the electric trains between Bengaluru and Mysuru on Dec. 26. The date for the inauguration of electric trains had been decided following the completion of track electrification work by the Central Organisation for Rail Electrification (CORE), Allahabad, according to reports. However, when Star of Mysore contacted…
Mysuru: Passengers commuting between Bengaluru and Mysuru on a daily basis are in for a shock as the South Western Railway (SWR) has decided to divert the Kannur-Karwar Express via Kunigal instead of Mysuru from Feb.10, 2018. The daily express, which ferried passengers from Bengaluru’s Krantiveera Sangolli Rayanna Railway Station at 8.30 pm throughout the…
Mysuru: Mysuru Division of South Western Railway (SWR) conducted a Pension Adalat yesterday at the office of Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) and the meeting was chaired by DRM Dr. Atul Gupta. The Adalat was organised to look into the grievances of retired Railway employees and family pensioners. Senior Divisional Personal Officer Prashant Mastiholi, Divisional Finance…
Mysuru: South Western Railway (SWR), Mysuru Division, is holding Pension Adalat on Dec.15 in the Divisional Office premises here for redressal of the grievances of Railway pensioners and family pensioners. Dr. Atul Gupta, Divisional Railway Manager (DRM), South Western Railway, Mysuru will chair the Pension Adalat. Senior officials from Personnel and Accounts Department of Mysuru…
For Chamarajanagar-Tirupati Express and Mysuru-Talaguppa Express Mysuru,: South Western Railway (SWR) has decided to withdraw the stoppages provided at following stations for Train No. 16219/16220, Chamarajanagar-Tirupati-Chamarajanagar Express and Train No. 16227/16228, Mysuru-Talaguppa-Mysuru Express with effect from March 24, 2018 due to poor patronisation: For Train No. 16219/16220, Chamarajanagar-Tirupati-Chamarajanagar Express, stoppage at Kadakola, Naganahalli, Byadarahalli, Yeliyur…
Mysuru: The railway double track between Mysuru and Bengaluru will be fully operational from the last week of November or the first week of December, according to South Western Railway (SWR) Sources. Sources said that minor works between Paschimavaahini and River Cauvery Railway Bridge and a few electrification works were being carried out and once…
Mysuru: South Western Railway (SWR) has decided to continue to run Train No. 06541/06542, Yesvantpur-Pandharpur-Yesvantpur Weekly Tatkal Special for 13 more trips in each direction to clear extra rush of passengers. Train No. 06541, Yesvantpur-Pandharpur Weekly Tatkal Special departs Yesvantpur at 18:00 hrs. on every Thursday with effect from Nov. 2, 2017 to Jan. 25,…
Mysuru: In first-of-its-kind initiative, South Western Railway (SWR) zone, which has jurisdiction over Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa, has embarked upon a plan to translocate 46 trees, which otherwise would have been felled to make way for track doubling. Devaragudda is a crossing station at about 369 km from Bengaluru in Bengaluru-Hubballi…
Recent Comments