Pollachi MP submits petition to improve railway service in his constituency

Coimbatore: K Shanmugasundaram, a member of the Lok Sabha from Pollachi constituency presented a petition to the Railway Board Chairman, Vinod Kumar Yadav during a meeting requesting improvement of railway services in his constituency.

Coimbatore: K Shanmugasundaram, a member of the Lok Sabha from Pollachi constituency presented a petition to the Railway Board Chairman, Vinod Kumar Yadav during a meeting requesting improvement of railway services in his constituency. 

The petition included requests to regulate existing passenger services between Madurai and Coimbatore as permanent, a new Madurai to Coimbatore fast passenger service using Nilgiris rakes and the restoration of the Coimbatore-Quilon service.

K Shanmugasundaram also mentioned in his petition to restore the night train between Coimbatore and Rameshwaram via Pollachi, Palani and Madurai. He also asked for laying of new railway tracks and improved facilities in Udumalapettai station with a two-wheeler stand, waiting hall for passengers and goods shed for freight traffic.

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