Standing Committee on Railways to Inspect Southern Zones Starting 3rd January 2020

The Committee then moves to Chennai to inspect and review the working of ICF with top officials including GM ICF. They also plan to check out on the last-mile connectivity… Read more

New Train Proposals from Salem Division

Various demands and suggestions were put forth by the representatives at the meeting. Salem Division has sent a slew of proposals to SR Headquarters Read more

A Freak Accident

On April 19, 2019, Indian Railway saw a freak, probably one-in-a-million accident happen near Bengaluru suburb Channasandra. Read more

A Phenomenal Effort

Avid railbuff from Chennai S Aravind and his documentation on Chainages of IR Read more

A line soon-to-be-revived

Indian Railways has decided to revive the Morappur-Dharmapuri rail line thus bringing down the present railway distance between these two places from 117 km (via Salem) to 36 km. The… Read more

Chennai’s Merry-Go-Round

As the Chennai metropolitan agglomerate gets ready to welcome its first Circular Railway, will this be the longest such circular train in comparison to the shortest distance between the two… Read more

The Indian Railways’ Strike: Some Memories

With the sad passing away of George Fernandes, it is time to reminisce about the Railway Strike during the Emergency. What we present are the memories of some of our… Read more

[UPDATED] Opinion: A Halt Cancelled

Some were skeptical, some were aghast, some were plain surprised. Such was the nature of the decision of Southern Railway to provide an experimental halt at Ambattur for two trains Read more

Opinion: Does the extension of Chennai Bengaluru Express to Mysuru really make up for diversion of the Bengaluru-Mangaluru Express?

Going by popular demand, Train Nos 12609/10 Chennai – Bengaluru City – Chennai Expresses have been extended to MYS effective 15 January, 2019. This was done apparently to compensate passengers… Read more