{"id":11540,"date":"2013-06-22T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T06:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11540"},"modified":"2013-06-22T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T06:40:12","slug":"80-trains-under-thiruvananthapuram-division-to-be-speeded-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/80-trains-under-thiruvananthapuram-division-to-be-speeded-up\/","title":{"rendered":"80 trains under Thiruvananthapuram Division to be speeded up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is some good news for passengers. Over 80 trains running through the <strong>Thiruvananthapuram railway division<\/strong> will be speeded up to save travel time. The new railway timetable will into effect from July 1.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum speed limit will be increased from 100 km per hour to 110 km and running time will be reduced by five minutes to an hour. The new decision will help the railways to increase its line capacity and to operate more train through Thiruvananthapuram division. The railways could not introduce new trains as the Thiruvananthapuram division lacked enough capacity for new trains. Thus it was decided that to increase operating capacity by speeding up of the existing with minimal change in the current timings.<\/p>\n<p>Divisional Railway Manager Rajesh Agarwal told that railways also have plans to increase the running time of the trains further during the next one year. The infrastructure in the division would be improved to ensure this. Sources said that there would also be an increase in the maximum speed on the <strong>Shoranur\u2013Mangalore<\/strong> line during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile some passengers said that many trains are faster than what they are as per time tables, but they are made to wait outside the stations, only because they are before time and the advantage is not given to the commuters by changing the time tables accordingly. The railways should review things and take proper steps.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Thiruvananthapuram railway division operates 80 express and 60 passenger trains daily carrying 2.6 lakh commuters daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is some good news for passengers. Over 80 trains running through the Thiruvananthapuram railway division will be speeded up to save travel time. The new railway timetable will into effect from July 1. The maximum speed limit will be increased from 100 km per hour to 110 km and running time will be reduced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-11540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-indian-railway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}