Anil Kumar Sastry

4 weeks ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Owing to high demand and patronage, the Southern Railway has decided to add eight more coaches to the m May 22. “At present the service runs with eight coaches, one executive class and seven chair car coaches. The Railways would add an equal number of coaches for respective classes making it a 16-car rake from the appointed date,” said Southern Railway. “Upon coach augmentation, the rake would have 14 chair car coaches and two executive class coaches”.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

With over four years of work on the twin Railway Under Bridge at Mahakalipadpu in south Mangaluru nearing completion, some residents have raised concerns over the possible traffic jams at Pandeshwar Level Crossing on Mangaladevi Road once the RuBs are commissioned. “After the RuBs are commissioned, all kinds of vehicles between the Central Business District (CBD) and southern parts of Mangaluru, including Kasargod, will start using the Jeppinamogaru-Morgan’s Gate-Mangaladevi stretch.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Southern Railway’s Palakkad division achieved a major feat in the construction of the twin railway-under-bridges (RuBs) beneath the Shoranur-Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction lines when it successfully pushed the last of the concrete boxes for the fourth vent beneath the Shoranur-Mangaluru Central line on April 17.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

Railway passengers associations along the Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd., network have questioned the rationale behind continued enforcement of monsoon timetable for the last two decades saying the dual timetable causes artificial shortage of trains and loss to the public as well as the railways.

1 month ago | thehindu.com | Anil Kumar Sastry

The National Highways division of Karnataka Public Works Department has began pushing the steel bow-string bridge girder over the Mangaluru-Mumbai railway line at Indrali in Udupi for construction of an additional rail-over-bridge on Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A. As on April 16, the girder was pushed to a distance of 30 metres at a rate of about 2m per hour, from Manipal-side, said a senior NH-PWD engineer overseeing the project.