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Hyderabad: The novel initiative of “One station One Product” that is aimed at making the railway stations a sales and promotional hub for local products has been launched across six major stations over South Central Railway (SCR). Encouraged by the response to the pilot project at a Station in Tirupati, it has now been launched […]
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Hydearbad: The newly constructed Railway Protection Force Post at Lingampalli Railway station of Secunderabad Division was inaugurated by Arun Kumar Jain, General Manager (in-charge), South Central Railway, here on Monday. The newly constructed RPF post is equipped with modern technology for round-the-clock surveillance at the busy railway station. Lingampalli Railway station is one of the […]
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Hyderabad: South Central Railway has extended the weekly special train services between Visakhapatnam and Secunderabad with these trains scheduled every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Train no. 08579 Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad will leave Visakhapatnam every Wednesday starting from April 6 to May 25 while Train no. 08580 Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam special train will leave Secunderabad every Thursday starting April 7 […]
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Hyderabad: To clear the extra festive rush during Ugadi, the South Central Railway will run six special trains during the festival season to connect various destinations. Train no. 07593 Kakinada-Secunderabad special train will leave Kakinada at 8:45 pm on March 31 (Thursday) and reach Secunderabad at 7:10 am on Friday. Train no. 07594 Secunderabad-Kakinada special […]
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Hyderabad: South Central Railway recorded its highest ever parcel earnings with revenue of Rs 200 crores. The trains loaded a total of 4.78 lakh tonnes of parcels in the current financial year. Officials say that this was achieved through various initiatives introduced by the Ministry of Railways and by ensuring that the supply chain of […]
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Hyderabad: Overcoming the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, South Central Railway (SCR) crossed a major milestone in freight revenue in the current financial year to record a whopping Rs 10,000 crores in freight revenue by loading 112.51 million tons. The growth in freight loading has been across the entire freight segment, with all commodities […]
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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad District Basketball Association is going to conduct the Level-I Final Stage of the Annual Hyderabad Basketball League Championship at the City College basketball grounds from March 15 to 31. A total of 13 teams will be seen in action in the tournament. Level-II, Level-III and Level-IV were completed while the Level-I tournament […]
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Hyderabad: ‘Kavach’, the indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system, will be deployed across the entire rail network beginning with 2,000 km in the 2022-23 fiscal and will be rolled out in 4,000 to 5,000 km every subsequent year, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. ‘Kavach’, which literally means armour, is being promoted by […]
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Hyderabad: The service timings of MMTS Train No. 47151 Falaknuma-Lingampalli have been revised with effect from February 19, the South Central Railway (SCR) informed the passengers in a press release issued here on Friday. Station Existing Timing Revised […]
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Hyderabad: Overcoming the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, South Central Railway (SCR) has achieved a huge milestone this financial year with the zone crossing the originating loading of 100 million tonnes in the freight segment and carrying 100 million passengers, as of February 11. The SCR’s efforts to balance both freight and passenger segments […]
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Hyderabad: Sanjeev Kishore, General Manager, South Central Railway conducted a detailed inspection of Cherlapally satellite terminal and electric loco shed, Lallaguda, on Friday. He was accompanied by R Dhananjayulu, Principal Chief Operations Manager, J K Jain, Principal Chief Mechanical Engineer, Somesh Kumar, Principal Chief Electrical Engineer, AK Gupta, Divisional Railway Manager, Secunderabad Division and other […]
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Hyderabad: The commissioning of the 10.45 km double line between Mahabubnagar and Divitipalli is all set to enhance the rail connectivity between Hyderabad and other major cities located towards the southern region such as Kurnool, Anantapur, Kadapa, Bengaluru and Tirupati. The project is being executed by the Railway PSU, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL). According […]
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Hyderabad: Aiming to encourage cashless transactions and to increase digital payments, the South Central Railway has introduced an additional facility for rail users for payment of ticket fare through QR (Quick Response) code for purchasing tickets through Automatic Ticket Vending Machines (ATVMs). Through this facility, after entering the journey details, while paying the ticket fare, […]
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Hyderabad: Located within the suburbs of Secunderabad and Hyderabad, Moula Ali railway station is emerging as a crucial hub given its geographical position within the city limits. Keeping this in mind, the South Central Railway is extensively modifying and improving the existing railway lines for enhanced train operations for transportation of freight and passengers. Accordingly, […]
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Hyderabad: To facilitate LB/PB for preliminary works in connection with doubling of tracks between Ettumanoor – Kottayam – Chingavanam stations of Thiruvananthapuram Division, South Central Railway has decided to divert one train. Train number 17230, Sabari Express (from Secunderabad to Trivandrum Central) scheduled from February 6 to 12, will be skipping stopages at Kottayam, Chingavanam, […]
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Hyderabad: The relentless efforts of the South Central Railway (SCR) officials to attract freight business towards Railways combined with continuous monitoring of the movement of freight trains has helped in increasing freight loading by the zone in January 2022 as well. Freight loading in the last month increased by 12 per cent when compared to […]
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Hyderabad: The South Central Railway (SCR) will be undertaking several projects including the laying of new lines, double lines, third lines and electrification in the year 2022-23. Highlighting the Budgetary allocation, SCR General Manager Sanjeev Kishore during a virtual press conference here on Thursday said that a total of Rs 3,048 crore has been sanctioned […]
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Hyderabad: Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) Minister KT Rama Rao on Monday reviewed the developmental works being taken up in the Kukatpally constituency. During the meeting, the Minister said that works pertaining to the Fatehnagar flyover were pending as the South Central Railway (SCR) is yet to give permission and the works are expected […]
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Hyderabad: In order to clear the extra rush of passengers, South Central Railway will run special trains between the city and various destinations. Train number 07455 (from Narsapur to Secunderabad) will operate on all Sundays of February (6, 13, 20, 27) and March (6, 13, 20, 27). Another train, number 07456 (from Secunderabad to Vijayawada) […]
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Hyderabad: Two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of South Central Railway (SCR)were awarded the prestigious Indian Police Medal on the occasion of 73rd Republic Day. Narasimha Udugu, Inspector, Secunderabad Post and Mastan Vali Shaik, Assistant Sub-Inspector, Tadepalli, Vijayawada Division are the awardees. Inspector U Narsimha has busted the gangs of theft of passenger belongings and […]
