The first freight train on the Manoharabad-Gajwel section of South Central Railway’s Hyderabad divison section was operated into the recently commissioned Gajwel railway station in Siddipet district with Finance and Health Minister T Harish Rao along with Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy inaugurating the rake point at Gajwel on Monday.
Loading and unloading of bagged consignments of the first goods rake of 21 wagons of 1,844 tonnes containing fertilizers booked from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh arrived at Gajwel station and is placed for unloading at the goods shed, informed senior Railway officials.
Gajwel station is the important station in Telangana State, which is constructed as part of Manoharabad - Kothapalli new railway line project. The first phase of new railway line between Manoharabad - Gajwel for a distance of 31 km has been completed and commissioned in June, 2020, while work is progressing in the remaining sections, they said.
