Pune Discussions

[cncity]

PUNE: Railway passengers travelling on the Pune-Mumbai route have a reason to cheer since the railway administration has decided to augment coaches of second class reserved category to three inter-city trains - Sinhagad, Intercity and Indrayani express. Intercity express (12127/12128) will have two coaches, Sinhagad express (11009/11010) and Indrayani express (12525/12526) will have one additional coach each from March 2 and 3.

The Intercity express will now run with total 14 coaches, while Sinhagad and Indrayani will have 19 and 17 coaches respectively. Meanwhile, the administration has also decided to put one additional second class reserved coach to the Intercity express (12169/12170) that runs between Pune and Solapur.

There was a long pending demand of passengers and commuter groups for augmentation of coaches to the Pune-Mumbai trains.

"When the railways said they cannot run new trains between Pune and Mumbai, there was demand to increase the capacity of existing trains," said S N Nikam, a state government employee, who travels on this route. Satish Manohar, who works in a marketing firm, welcomed the move. "People prefer rail travel since it is cheaper and faster. The administration should give a serious thought to commencing adedicated rail track between Pune and Mumbai."

http://articles.timesofindia.indiati...hes-new-trains