Officials of Waltair division have decided to extend, increase in frequency and also add additional stoppages to several trains. Apart from these, there is change in arrival/departure time of about 18 trains. Senior Divisional Commercial Manager, East Coast Railway-Waltair, G. Suneel Kumar, said that the new time table will come into effect from July 1, 2019.
According to a release from the officials, train No. 17243/17244 ( Vijayawada – Rayagada – Vijayawada ) Express has been extended to Guntur, while train No. 12805/12806 ( Visakhapatnam – Secunderabad – Visakhapatnam ) Express has been extended to Lingampalli. Similarly, train No. 17488/17487 ( Visakhapatnam – Tirupati – Visakhapatnam ) Express extended to Kadapa.
Train No. 18107/18108 ( Rourkela – Koraput – Rourkela ) was Express extended to Jagadalpur, train no. 20889/20890 ( Howrah – Vijayawada – Howrah ) Express extended to Tirupati, train No. 58526/58525 ( Visakhapatnam – Palasa – Visakhapatnam ) Passenger extended to Brahmapur.
The officials also added that train No. 12376/12375 ( Asonsol – Chennai Central – Asonsol ) Express extended to Jasidlh and Tambaram on both end and re-numbered as 13576/13575 ( Jasidlh- Tambaram – Jasidlh ) Express.
Increase in frequency
Among those trains, whose frequency was increased include train No. 18117/18118 ( Rourkela – Gunupur – Rourkela ) Express, whose frequency has been increased from three days to six days in a week. Another train No 22606/22605 ( Villupuram – Purulia – Villupuram ) Express frequency has also been increased from weekly to Bi- weekly.
Stoppage of trains
The train No. 22974/22973 ( Puri – Gandidham – Puri ) Weekly Express given stoppage at Bobbili Station.
The train No. 17239 ( Guntur – Visakhapatnam ) Express will arrive Visakhapatnam at 5.20 p.m. instead of 6.20 p.m. Similarly, train No. 12861 ( Visakhapatnam – Hazrat Nizamuddin ) Express will leave Visakhapatnam at 2:50 p.m., instead of 3.05 p.m. Train No. 13352 ( Alleppy - Dhanbad – Tata ) Express will arrive Visakhapatnam at 2:45 p.m. and leave at 3:05 pm instead of arriving 3:15 p.m. and leaving at 3:35 p.m.
In the case of train No. 18513 ( Kirandul - Visakhapatnam ) Express, it will leave Kirandul at 3.00 p.m. instead of 3:30 p.m. Meanwhile, train No. 18514 ( Visakhapatnam - Kirandul ) Express will leave Visakhapatnam at 9.35 p.m. instead of 9.40 p.m.
The train no 18504 ( Sai Nagar Shirdi - Visakhapatnam ) Express will arrive Visakhapatnam at 10.05 p.m. instead of 10.10 p.m. Train No. 18105 ( Rourkela - Jagdalpur ) Express will arrive Jagdalpur at 11:15 a.m. instead of 11:30 a.m. The train No. 18514 ( Visakhapatnam - Kirandul ) Express will arrive Kirandul at 10 a.m. instead of 9:40 a.m.
Similarly, timings of several passenger trains towards Vijayawada, Narasapur, Durg and a few others have been changed.
