Hi friends,
I have sent out an e-mail to the ministry of railways asking them for trains which I felt are the need of the hour for Bangalore and Karnataka. A copy of the same is here:
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I request you to include the following passenger train services in the upcoming railway budget. These services have been long overdue and have the potential to provide a boost to the revenue of the railways. Also, while services to some of the cities in North India are available from places such as Trivandrum that is much smaller than Bangalore and has a lesser population, Bangalore and Karnataka have been deprived of these services since long. Some of them are:
Bangalore - Kalka superfast express via Gulbarga, New Delhi
Bangalore - Varanasi express
Bangalore - Bikaner express
Bangalore - Jammu express
Bangalore - Mumbai superfast express via Hubli, Madgaon and Panvel
Bangalore - Dehradun express
Bangalore - Karwar express via Hubli and Madgaon
Mangalore - Chennai express via Hassan and Bangalore, overnight
Mangalore - Secunderabad express via Hassan and Bangalore, overnight
Bangalore - Chikmagalur express
Bangalore - Belgaum intercity express
Bidar - Chamarajanagr express via Bangalore and Mysore
Mysore - Bijapur express
Mangalore - Bijapur express via Madgaon and Hubli
Mysore - Secunderabad express and
Bangalore - Hyderabad Duronto
Creation of new divisions in Mangalore and Gulbarga and inclusion of both under South Western Railway
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