1 July 2013

South Central Railway TEMPORARY AUGMENTATION OF SEVERAL TRAINS WITH ADDITIONAL COACHES TO CLEAR EXTRA RUSH / WAITLISTED PASSENGERS

South Central Railway has temporarily augmented the following popular trains with additional coaches to clear the extra rush / waitlisted passengers during the period from 1st July 2013 till 17thJuly 2013 as per the details mentioned below:-

1.  Tr.No. 17210/17209 Kakinada Town- Bangalore- Kakinada Town Seshadri Express will be augmented with two additional AC-III Tier coaches from Kakinada Town 1st July 2013 and from Bangalore 2nd July 2013.

2.  Tr.No. 17230/17229 Hyderabad-Tiruvananthapuram-Hyderabad Sabari Express will be augmented with one additional First AC cum AC-II tier coach from Hyderabad 1st July 2013 and from Tiruvananthapuram 3rd July 2013.

3.  Tr.No. 17405/17406 Tirupati-Adilabad-Tirupati Krishna Express will be augmented with one additional Chair Car and o­ne Sleeper Class coach from Tirupati 1stJuly 2013 and from Adilabad 2nd July 2013.

4.  Tr.No. 12797/12798 Kacheguda-Chittoor-Kacheguda Venkatadri Express will be augmented with one AC-II tier coach from 1st July 2013 in both the directions.

5.   Tr.No. 17018/17017 Secunderabad-Rajkot-Secunderabad Express will be augmented with one AC-III tier coach from Rajkot 2nd July to 15th July 2013 and from Secunderabad 4th July to 17th July 2013.

6.   Tr.No. 17002/17001 Secunderabad- Sai Nagar Shirdi -Secunderabad Express will be augmented with one AC-III tier coach o­n 5th July and 12thJuly 2013 from Secunderabad and 6th July and 13th July 2013 from Sai Nagar Shirdi.

The augmented additional coaches have already been fed into the computerized Passenger Reservation System (PRS), thereby resulting in ready availability of around 18846 additional berths for the passengers which will effectively meet additional demand o­n the above trains.