The Thanjavur District Railway Users’ Association has urged the railway administration to carry out the track-doubling project in the Villupuram-Thanjavur mainline section via Mayiladuthurai and Kumbakonam.
Representatives of the association submitted a memorandum containing this demand as also other demands to the Southern Railway General Manager A.K. Agarwal during his visit to Kumbakonam on March 26.
In the memorandum, the association secretary A. Giri said the Villupuram-Thanjavur section via Kumbakonam was one of the oldest stretches with operation of trains since 1877. Rail traffic in this old section had almost become saturated now. Demands for operation of more new trains in this electrified high revenue generating section could not be met as it was a single line stretch.
