Thursday, December 26, 2013

NEW TRAINS TOWARDS TATA & KOLLAM FROM VISAKHAPATNAM

As announced in last Railway Budget for running of weekly Express trains towards Tata & Kollam from Visakhapatnam, Ministry of Railways has decided to introduce Visakhapatnam-Tata weekly express via Brahmapur-Bhubaneswar & Kendujhargarh w.e.f. 5th January 2014 and Visakhapatnam-Kollam weekly Express w.e.f. 30th January 2014 from Visakhapatnam.

18516 Visakhapatnam-Tata weekly Express via Brahmapur-Bhubaneswar-Kendujhargarh will leave Visakhapatnam at 1745 hrs on every Sunday and will arrive at Tata at 1045 hrs on every Monday. In the return direction, 18515 Tata-Visakhapatnam weekly Express will leave Tata at 1300 hrs on every Monday and will arrive at Visakhapatnam at 0440 hrs on every Tuesday.

This train has One AC-2 tier, Two AC-3 tiers, Nine Sleeper Class Coaches, Six General Second Class Coaches and Two Guard cum Luggage Vans in its composition having stoppages at Simhachalam, Vizianagaram, Srikakulam, Palasa, Sompeta, Ichhapuram, Brahmapur, Chhatrapur, Balugaon, Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Mancheswar, Cuttackm Jakhapura, Sukinda Road, Harichandanpur, Kendujhargarh, Nayagarh, Bangiriposi, Dongaposi, Chaibasa and Rajkharasuan between Visakhapatnam & Tata.


18567 Visakhapatnam-Kollam weekly Express will leave Visakhapatnam at 0900 hrs on every Thursday and will arrive at Kollam at 1410 hrs on every Friday. In the return direction, 18568 Kollam-Visakhapatnam weekly Express will leave Kollam at 2100 hrs on every Friday and will arrive at Visakhapatnam at 0135 hrs on every Sunday (after midnight of Saturday).

This train has One AC-2 tier, Three AC-3 tiers, Nine Sleeper Class Coaches, Six General Second Class Coaches and Two Guard cum Luggage Vans in its composition having stoppages at Duvvada, Yellmancheli, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Vijaywada, Tenali, Baptala, o­ngole, Nelore, Gudur, Reniguntha, Katpadi, Jollarpetai, Salem, Erode, Tiruppur, Coimbator, Palakkad, Thrisur, Ernakulam Town, Kottayam, Chengannur and Kayanakulam between Visakhapatnam & Kollam.