Kottayam: Train services south of Ernakulam will be disrupted on Saturday due to the work on doubling of track between Piravom Road and Kuruppanthara on the Kottyam route and the commissioning of completed tracks.
Six passenger trains have been canceled and eight express trains diverted via Alappuzha.
Canceled MEMUs:
Ernakulam Junction-Kollam (66307 - departure at 5:25 am)
Kollam-Ernakulam Junction (66308 - 11:10 am)
Kollam-Ernakulam Junction via Alappuzha (66302 - 8:50 am)
Ernakulam Junction Kollam (66301 - 2:40 pm)
Other canceled passenger trains
Ernakulam-Kayamkulam (56387)
Kayamkulam-Ernakulam (56388)
The Guruvayur-Punalur Passenger (56365) and Punalur-Guruvayur passenger (56366) trains will run only between Guruvayur and Edappally.
Express trains diverted via Alappuzha
Nagercoil-Mangalore Parasuram Express (16650)
TVPM-Hyderabad Sabari Express (17229)
Kanyakumari-Mumbai CST (16382)
Thiruvananthapuram-New Delhi Kerala Express (12625)
The following trains will also be diverted via Alappuzha and will stop at Ambalappuzha, Haripad, Alappuzha, Cherthala rail stations for one minute each
Kannur-Thiruvananthapuram Jan Shatabdi (12081)
New Delhi-Thiruvananthapuram Kerala Express (12626)
Hyderabad-TVPM Sabari Express (17230)
Mangalore Nagercoil Parasuram Express (16649)
Though Kanyakuamri-Bengaluru Island Express (16525) will run via Kottayam, it will stop at Kottayam railway station for 30 minutes.
Kollam-Kottayam passenger (56394) will conduct routine service.
Southern Railway's new train timetable comes into effect from October 1 (Saturday) and following which, some of the train timings have changed.
