Friday, December 9, 2011

New railway lines on track: ECoR

Times of India, Dec 8, 2011

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar-Kendujhargarh fast passenger was flagged off by Lok Sabha member Prasanna Kumar Patasani here on Wednesday.
The new train will leave Bhubaneswar at 4 pm on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
It will reach Kendujhargarh the same day at 9.15 pm and start its return journey at 5.30 am the next day to reach Bhubaneswar at 11.20 am.

Speaking on the occasion, general manager (East Coast Railway) Indra Ghosh said out of eleven new trains announced in the last Railway Budget for introduction in East Coast Railway; four new trains viz. Puri-Shalimar Weekly express, Bhubaneswar-Jharsuguda Rajyarani tri weekly express, Visakhapatnam-Shalimar weekly express and Puri-Gandhigham express have already been introduced. Similarly, Sambalpur-Nizamabad and Visakhapatnam-Nazimabad express trains have already been extended to Nanded.
Ghosh said railways have made considerable progress on construction of new lines and would shortly open the section between Lanjigarh to Bhawanipatna of Lanjigarh-Junagarh new line and Khurda Road to Begunia as a part of Khurda Road-Bolangir new line and also Haridaspur-Jenapur 3rd line as a part of Jakhapura-Haridaspur 3rd line. He said planning work on doubling of Puri-Delang section is also at an advance stage" added Ghosh.
The survey for New BG lines between Rayagada-Gopalpur, Junagarh-Ambaguda, Khurda Road-Rajathgarh bye-passing Bhubaneswar, Kantabanji-Jeypore, Sambalpur-Brahmapur, Bolangir-Nawapara, Dantewara-Malkanagiri, Talcher-Phulbani & Junagarh-Malkanagiri have been taken up in a big way and are in various stages of progress.
On completion of all these projects, East Coast Railway will definitely justify its importance on the map of Indian Railways, said the General Manager.
Divisional Railway Manager, S. K. Mohanty among others also spoke on the occasion.

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