Mangaluru : Due to the continued non-interlocked working at the Palakkad Junction yard under the Southern Railway, some trains will be partially cancelled on Thursday. The work is to connect the new platform line with the main line, modernisation of signalling and the extension of the railway track of three operational lines. Train No 56323 […]

Mangaluru : Southern Railway will regulate some trains for three days from Sunday. It is in view of the work on the new road overbridge between Feroke and Kallayi Railway Stations. On Sunday, train no 22638 Mangaluru-Chennai West Coast Express will be detained at Kallayi for 74 minutes. Train No 22852 Mangaluru-Santragatchi Vivek Express will […]

Mangaluru : Vashishta Johri assumed charge as General Manager, Southern Railway, Chennai, on Tuesday. He had been Advisor, Production Units with the Railway Board before joining Southern Railway. Mr. Johri enrolled as Special Class Railway Apprentice in 1975 and subsequently, joined Indian Railway Service of Mechanical Engineers (IRSME) in 1979. He has worked as Joint […]

Mangaluru : The Padil-Bajal Railway Under Bridge (RuB), which is much in need, is unlikely to get commissioned before this December. As the monsoon has already arrived, the Railways is not prepared to take up any further work so as to not disturb the tracks above. Despite several meetings and reminders, the Mangaluru City Corporation […]

Bengaluru : In an early morning train accident near Bengaluru, 11 passengers have died and many injured after coaches of Ernakulam-bound Bengaluru City-Ernakulam Intercity express (Train no. 12677) derailed on the city’s outskirts. The accident has been reported at Belagondapalli near Anekal town on the city’s outskirts around 7.35 a.m. Railway sources said that nine […]

Mangalore : The Southern Railway has introduced special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers during Onam season. Train no 06001 Chennai Central – Mangalore Central Superfast Special will leave Chennai Central at 8.45pm on August 25 and arrive Mangalore Central at 1.05pm the next day. Train no. 06002 Mangalore Central – Chennai Central […]

Mangalore : The artiste’s troupe from Southern Railway State Bharath Scouts and Guides, Palghat unit staged a street play at MangaloreCentral Railway Station on July 5, Thursday. The team performed the play on the topic to create publicawareness on avoiding accidents at railway crossings in the entrance of theRailway Station. The team of 15 artistes […]

Mangalore: There was a time under the British even up to 1950 when south India was one single Madras Province, with DK at the west end of it, when lawyers having cases to placed in Madras high count, used to eatch trains going to Madras (say Mail or Express) and return after the cases are […]

Mangalore : The Southern Railway Mazdoor Union, Mangalore Branch organized a demonstration in front of Mangalore Railway Station on Feb 23, Thursday highlighting the problems faced by the patients in Mangalore area due to the deficiency in treatment received from the hospitals in PGT division, especially from MAQ. Addressing the protestors, Anand, secretary, Southern Railway […]

Mangalore: The Southern Railway begins a new Superfast train running via Mangalore (Kankanady) Junction route from Ernakulam (Kochi) to Pune from Nov. 27, today. The train runs twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday at 5-15 am from Ernakulam and every Sunday and Wednesday at 6.45 pm from Pune The train passes through Thrissur, Shornur, […]