South Central Railway has released the Southern
Zone Time Table which comes into effect from 01st July, offers much cheer for
the Passengers of South Central Railway. The salient features of announcement of new
time table are following:
New Trains: 15 of the
75 new Mail/Express Trains announced in the Railway Budget-2012-13 will
originate from S. C. Railway and another 10 would pass through this Railway. Thus,
1/3rd of the total Mail/Express trains to be introduced during the FY 2012-13
would be available for the Passengers of S. C. Railway. Allotment of such high
percentage of trains for SCR has never been done in the past. These trains will
be introduced in a phased manner in the current Financial Year.
Extension of Trains: Apart
from New Train Services, this Time Table features the extension of 3
Originating Trains and 1 pass through Train and increase in frequency of 8
Originating / Terminating Trains and 4 pass through Trains over SCR. There will
be change in the Days of operation for 5 Weekly Trains on SCR.
Change in the Schedule: Changes in the present
schedule of timings have been effected in respect of 4 of the SCR's trains,
viz.,i) Tr. No 17429 Hyderabad- Tirupathi Rayalaseema Express ii) Tr. No 12485
Nanded- Shri Ganga Sagar Express, iii) Tr. No 12732 Secunderabad - Tirupathi
Express and iv) Tr. No 17415 Tirupathi - Kolhapur
Haripriya Express.
Speeding up of Trains:
12 Trains have been speeded up by reducing their travel time ranging from 10
minutes to 80 minutes. Arrival / Departure Timings of some of the Trains at
individual Stations have been changed in 12 cases
Change of Terminal: Change
of terminal has been effected from the present Secunderabad to Kachegudafor 2
Trainsviz., - i)Tr. No 57426 Guntakal - Secunderabad Passenger andii) Tr. No
57473 Secunderabad - Bodhan Passenger.
Change in Train Number:
Train Numbers of 4 Originating / Terminating Express Trains and 14 Express
Trains passing through SCR have also been changed with effect from various
dates in August and October.
Train-wise and Station-wise details of the changes
to be effected as mentioned above are given below:
I - New Train Services (2012-13) (from a date to be notified later)
a) Originating Express Trains
1. Secunderabad – Shalimar AC Express (Weekly via Vijayawada)
2. Kakinada
– Secunderabad AC Express (Tri Weekly)
3. Secunderabad– Bidar Inter City Express (Six days
a Week)
4. Secunderabad – Belampalli Inter
City express (Daily via
Kazipet)
5. Kacheguda – Madurai Express (Weekly via Dharmavaram,
Pakala, Jolarpettai)
6. Secunderabad – Darbhanga Express (Bi-weekly via
Ballarshah, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Ranchi,
Jhajha)
7. Tirupati –Bhubneshwar Express (Weekly via Visakhapatnam, Gudur)
8. Secunderabad - Jaipur Express (Weekly via Nagda,
Bhopal, Narkhar, Amravati,
Akola)
9. Adilabad – Huzur Saheb Nanded Express (Daily via
Mudkhed)
10. Secunderabad – Porbandar Express (Weekly via
Viramjam, Vasai Road)
11. Tirupati – Mannargudi Express (Tri-weekly via
Thiruvarur, Villupuram, Katpadi)
12. Secunderabad – Nagpur Express (Tri-weekly via Kazipet)
13. Karimnagar – Tirupati Express (Weekly via
Peddapalli)
14. Hyderabad – Ajmer Express (Weekly via
Manmad, Itarsi, Ratlam)
15. Huzur Saheb Nanded - Amritsar Express (Weekly)
b) Originating Passenger Trains
1. Yerraguntla – Nosam/Nanganapalli (Daily)
c) Pass Through Mail/Express Trains
1. Vishakhapatnam
– Chennai express (Weekly)
2. Visakhapatnam –
Sainagar Shirdi Express (Weekly via Vijayawada,
Manmad)
3. Indore –
Yeshwanthpur Express (Weekly via Itarsi, Narkher, Amravati,
Akola,
Kacheguda)
4. Amravati – Pune
Express (Bi-weekly via Akola,
Purna, Latur)
5. Puri – Yeshwanthapur Garib Rath Express (Weekly
via Visakhapatnam, Guntur)
6. Mysore – Sainagar
Shirdi Express (Weekly via Bangalore,
Dharmavaram, Bellary)
7. Sholapur –
Yeshwanthpur Express (Tri-weekly via Gulbarga)
8. Chennai – Puri Express (Weekly)
9. Asansol – Chennai Express (Weekly via Purulia,
Sambalpur, Vizianagaram)
d) Pass Through Mail / Express Trains for which date of
introduction is announced
1. Shalimar – Chennai Express (Weekly) With effect
from 3rdJuly, 2012
II - Extension ofTrains (from a date to be notified later)
a) Extension of Originating Trains
1. 16780/16779Tirupati- Madurai Express to Rameshwaram
2. 57502/57503Bodhan – Nizamabad Passenger to
Kamareddi
3. 56011/56012Arakonam – Nandalur Passenger to
Cuddapah
b) Extension ofPass Through Trains
1. 12687/12688 Dehradun - Chennai Express to Madurai (via Erode
III - Increase in Frequency of Trains (from a date to be notified
later)
a) Increase in Frequency of Originating Trains
1. 12731/12732Secunderabad – Tirupati Express2to 4
days
2. 17003/17004Hyderabad – Kolhapur Express2to 7
days
3. 16779/16780Tirupati – Madurai Express2to 3 days
4. 12485/12486H.S Nanded –Sri Ganganagar Exp1to 3
days
b) Increase in Frequency of Pass Through Trains (2 Pairs)
1. 22603/22604Villupuram– Kharagpur Express1 to 2
days
2. 12641/12642 Hazrat Nizamuddin-Kanyakumari
Express1 to 2 days
IV - Change in Days of operation
a) Change in Days of operation of Originating Train
1. With effect from 19.09.2012, Train No.22849
Shalimar-Secunderabad Express will leave Shalimar on Wednesday instead of
Friday and will arrive Secunderabad on Thursday instead of Saturday.
2. With effect from 21.09.2012 Train No.22850
Secunderabad-Shalimar Express will leave Secunderabad on Friday instead of
Sunday and will arrive Shalimar on Saturday instead of Monday.
b) Change in Days of operation of Pass Through Trains
1. With effect from 21.08.2012, Train No.22604
Villupuram- Kharagpur will leave on Tuesday instead of Monday
2. With effect from 23.08.2012, Train No.22603
Kharagpur-Villupuram will leave on Thursday instead of Wednesday.
3. With effect from 08.10.2012, Train No.12214
Delhi Sarai Rohilla-Yesvantapur Duranto Express will leave on Delhi Sarai
Rohillaon Monday instead of Wednesday.
V- Changes in complete Time Schedule of 4 Mail/Express Trains with
effect from 1st July, 2012
1) Train No. 17429 Hyderabad-Tirupati
Rayalaseema Express will depart Hyderabad
at 15 35 hrs instead of 17 25 hrs. Enroute, this train will depart Begumpet at
15 46 hrs, Sanathnagar at 15 55 hrs, Lingampalli at 16 15 hrs, Shankarpalli at
16 31 hrs,Vikarabad at 17 10 hrs, Tandur at 17 55 hrs, Nawandgi at 18 10
hrs,Kurugunta at 18 21 hrs, Seram at 18 30 hrs, Makkhaid Raold at 18 45 hrs,
Chittapur at 19 00 hrs,Nalwar ast 19 40 hrs, Yadgir at 20 00 hrs, Narayanapeta
Road at 20 20 hrs, Krishna at 20 37 hrs,Raichur at 21 10 hrs, Manthralayam Road
at 21 35 hrs, Adoni at 22 17 hrs,Guntakal at 23 20 hrs, Gooty at 23 50 hrs,
Tadipatri at 00 35 hrs,Kondapuram at 01 00 hrs, Muddanuru at 01 30 hrs,
Yerraguntla at 01 50 hrs, Kamalapuram at 02 10 hrs, Cuddapah at 02 45 hrs,
Nandalur at 03 25 hrs, Rajampet at 03 50 hrs, Pullampet at 04 00 hrs,
Obulawaripalli at 04 10 hrs, Koduru at 04 30 hrs, Renigunta at 06 10 hrs and arrive
Tirupati at 06 40 hrs instead of 08 10 hrs. onthe next day.
2) Train No. 12732 Secunderabad-Tirupati Express
will depart Secundedrabad at20 05 hrs instead of 19 00 hrs. Enroute, this train
will depart Vikarabad at 20 20 hrs, Raichur at 00 40 hrs, Guntakal at 02 25
hrs, Gooty at03 00 hrs,Anantapur at 04 15 hrs, Dharmavaram at 05 10 hrs, Kadiri
at 06 18 hrs, Mulakalacheruvu at 06 52 hrs, Mananapalli at 07 36 hrs, Kaligiri
at 08 05 hrs, Pileru at 08 25 hrs, Pakala at 09 42 hrs and arrive Tirupati at
10 35 hrs instead of 09 30 hrs on the next day.
3) Train No. 17415 Tirupati-Kolhapur Haripriya
Express will depart Tirupati at 21 00 hrs instead of 20 30 hrs. Enroute, this
train will depart Renigunta at 21 22 hrs, Koduru at 22 00 hrs, Obulavaripalle
at 22 12 hrs, Pullampet at 22 21 hrs, Rajampet at 22 35 hrs, Nandlur at 22 52
hrs,Cuddapah at 23 40 hrs, Kamalapuram at 00 01 hrs, Yerraguntla at 00 18 hrs,
Muddanuru at 00 30 hrs, Kondapuram at 01 00 hrs, Tadipatri at 01 30 hrs, Gooty
at 02 40 hrs Guntakal at 03 10 hrs, Bellary at 04 25 hrs and arrive Kolhapur at
the existing timings of 16 35 hrs on the next day.
4) Train No.12485 H.S.Nanded-Sri Ganganagar Express
will depart HS Nanded at 11 00 hrs instead of 23 30 hrs. Enroute, this train
will depart Purna at 11 50 hrs, Hingoli at 12 59 hrs, Washim at 13 49 hrs,Akola at 16 05 hrs and arriveSri
Ganganagar at 22 40 hrs instead of 10 55 hrs. on the second day.
