{"id":3534,"date":"2010-05-07T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2010-05-07T10:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:07:54","slug":"bhubaneswar-rameswaram-express-to-start-on-may-2010-motre-than-three-years-after-it-was-announced-in-the-2007-08-railway-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3534","title":{"rendered":"Bhubaneswar &#8211; Rameswaram express to start on May 2010; more than three years after it was announced in the 2007-08 Railway budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/203.176.113.182\/ECOR\/website\/home.jsp\" target=\"_self\">an East Coast Railways press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ministry of Railways will introduce the new Bhubanewar-Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar weekly express with effect from 21st May 2010 from Bhubaneswar and from 23rd May 2010 from Rameswaram.<\/p>\n<p>8496 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram &ndash;Bhubaneswar weekly express will leave Bhubaneswar at 12.00 noon on every Friday and will arrive Rameswaram at 11.55 pm on every Saturday.&nbsp; In the return direction, 8495 Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar weekly express will leave Rameswaram at 6.30 a.m on every Sunday and will arrive Bhubaneswar at 6.40 pm on every Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>8496\/8495 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar weekly express will have stoppages at Khurda Road , Brahmapur, Vizianagaram, Duvvada, Vijayawada, Gudur, Chennai Egmore, Villupuram, Mayiladuthurai, Kumbakanam, Thanjavur, Tiruchirapali, Koraikuddi and Manmadurai stations between Bhubaneswar and Rameswaram having one AC-2 tier, one AC-3 tier , 10 Sleeper Class coaches , 04 General 2nd Class coaches, two Guard-Cum-Luggage vans and one Pantry Car in its composition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This makes three exclusive trains between Bhubaneswar and Chennai. (By exclusive, I mean they will not be already occupied by passengers from\/to Howrah thus having more quota for Odisha passengers.) They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2829\/30 Bhubaneswar-Chennai<\/li>\n<li>2897\/98 Bhubaneswar-Pondicherry<\/li>\n<li>8495\/96 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also the newly proposed Haldia-Chennai train may have more room for Odisha passengers as compared to Coromandel and Howrah-Chennai mail.<\/p>\n<p>In general the east coast of Odisha has very good exclusive connectivity to the main Southern cities; Prashanti to Bangalore and Visakha and Konark to Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3380\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3380<\/a> for the other announced trains that are still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is from an East Coast Railways press release: Ministry of Railways will introduce the new Bhubanewar-Rameswaram-Bhubaneswar weekly express with effect from 21st May 2010 from Bhubaneswar and from 23rd May 2010 from Rameswaram. 8496 Bhubaneswar-Rameswaram &ndash;Bhubaneswar weekly express will leave Bhubaneswar at 12.00 noon on every Friday and will arrive Rameswaram at 11.55 pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[778,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-railway-budgets","category-indian-railways-and-orissa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}