Commuters have been inconvenienced as railway has reduced the number of coaches on passenger trains causing chaos during the peak hours in the morn ings and evenings.
Passenger trains passing through the city usually have around 15 to 16 coaches for the commuters that de pend on them on a daily ba sis, but according to passengers, over the past 10days there have been just 11 to 12 coaches on trains including the Guruvayur-Ernakulam, Guruvayur-Punalur and Ernakulam-Shornur passenger.
On Thursday, around 50 passengers were left behind at the Edappally station after the Ernakualm-Shornur passenger was not only short of coaches, but the first three were locked. “There were no prior announcements and many of us were left outside the train,“ Manikandan RD of the Ernakulam Railway Passengers Association.
(Times of India dt 16-10-2015)
Passenger trains passing through the city usually have around 15 to 16 coaches for the commuters that de pend on them on a daily ba sis, but according to passengers, over the past 10days there have been just 11 to 12 coaches on trains including the Guruvayur-Ernakulam, Guruvayur-Punalur and Ernakulam-Shornur passenger.
On Thursday, around 50 passengers were left behind at the Edappally station after the Ernakualm-Shornur passenger was not only short of coaches, but the first three were locked. “There were no prior announcements and many of us were left outside the train,“ Manikandan RD of the Ernakulam Railway Passengers Association.
(Times of India dt 16-10-2015)
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