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Written By Vasanth - 8 July, 2008

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I was just seeing the frequency of trains from Mysore towards Bangalore as well as towards Whitefield from Bangalore station during morning hours. There seems to be very little traffic of trains. First train from Mysore towards Bangalore reaches Kengeri at 9:00 AM. Upto 9 AM track is completely free from Kengeri to Bangalore. We can have a train at around 7:30 AM towards Whitefield which can reach at around 8:30- 8:45 AM with stops at Jnanabarathi, Nayandahalli, Bangalore City Station, Cantonment, Byappanahalli, KR Puram and finally at whitefield. ITPL or company buses can pick the passengers from whitefield Railway station to ITPL/other companies.

Evenings train can leave Whitefield at around 6:30 PM and reach SBC at around 7:15 PM and Kengeri at 7:45 PM. Evening last train to Mysore leaves at 7:00 PM. Behind this, this train can be run. Track upto Kengeri is doubled. One line is electrified, other trains electrification is progress. Whitefield side it is completely electrified.

I see lot of people working in Kadugodi areas spending more than 3+ hours for transit. This has to come from State Government to Railways.

COMMENTS

Look at it from the perspective of Railways

mcadambi - 9 July, 2008 - 06:09

I read in ToI sometime back that the Railways does not have adequate infrastructure to

cater to both the needs of inter-city rail service and intra-city / suburban rail service. For the latter, a frequency of service is required in order for economies of scale to exist. But if such frequencies exist, then the former (inter-city) gets affected as inter-city and freight trains cannot use the tracks in Bangalore

I suggest the following as a long term suggestion:

  • Open 4 inter-city train stations along the end of peripheral ring road or at the end of all Metro-lines. For example, train travelling north towards hubli / pune / hyderabad can start from Hessarghatta cross metro line station
  • One station each in north, east, west and south
  • Different trains can be operated from these stations
  • A circular "Peripheral" rail ring with enough infrastructure would provided adequate connectivity on an intercity basis from all ends of Bangalore 

Will this interest railways?

idontspam - 9 July, 2008 - 07:24

Lease railway land and lay seperate track for city trains. City authorities can run this service.

Railways get to keep the land and still earn revenue. While we get the trains we need.

Railways and land

mcadambi - 10 July, 2008 - 08:06

South Western Railways is NOT interested in the welfare of Karnataka.

All they are interested is in bringing in people from all over India, especially from 'Laluland' in Bangalore.

They could not give up 720 sq ft of their land for the Rammurthynagar Underpass and even were successfull in getting the ASI to shift Colonel Bailey's dungeon in Srirangapatna instead of acquiring agricultural land for which they have the money and means to do so.

People coming from Patna have no regards for the historical importance of Srirangapatna.

It is high time Karnataka "nationalises" the railways and their assets in Karnataka. Form a seperate railway called "Karnataka Railways Corporation" and manage it from Karnataka itself. 

awesome maps

tsubba - 13 July, 2008 - 14:40

narayan awesome maps you have been posting. have you saved the kmls? i now have the list of all the bmtc stops. more than 1700. want to map them dont know how. anyideas?

railways not interested

blrsri - 9 July, 2008 - 05:04

As they have mentioned before, railways are not interested in running locals in bangalore..they want to restrict to long distance..else running train to BIAL was not a problem..

But one intersting observation is that a friend of mine along with many others who stay in the vijayanagar/rajarajeshwari nagar area and work around KR puram area, including ITPL, use trains already..they park vehicles at SBC and take the chennai train..

They are saying its very easy..as the ride takes less than 30 min to KR puram..

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