Coimbatore: Industrialists, politicians, activists and commuters are up in arms over the Southern Railway’s refusal to recommend reinstatement of the daily overnight train to Rameswaram via Pollachi from the city.
The Southern Railway has instead proposed a Mangaluru-Rameswaram night train, which would be operated twice a week. Activists are worried that the city would permanently lose one of its crucial originating trains and frequency. Another concern is that people have to take the train from Podanur.
Resumption of the train service to Rameswaram has been a long-pending demand, and MPs P R Natarajan (Coimbatore), Shanmuga Sundaram (Pollachi) and S Venkatesan (Madurai) had written to the Southern Railway, demanding the same.
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