Special trains, extra coaches to clear rush

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: South Western Railway (SWR) has announced they would be running special trains and attaching additional coaches to regular trains to clear the rush leading up to Holi.

A special train would start from Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal Bengaluru and have Kannur in Kerala as its destination. It would also ply in the opposite direction.

The Bengaluru to Kannur Express special would depart from Sir M Visvesvaraya Terminal at 11:55 pm on Tuesday and arrive in Kannur at 2 pm on Wednesday. The train will have stoppages at KR Puram, Bangarapet, Salem, Erode, Coimbatore, Palakkad and Kozhikkode, among other stations.

In the other direction, the train would star t from Kannur at 10:40 pm on Wednesdayand reaches Bengaluru at 1 pm on Thursday. SWR has also augmented 229 coaches on a permanent basis from April 2022 to February this year, which is the highest augmentation rate during the last three years.