Festival rush: Railways extend key Vizag special trains to ease crowd; check dates, timings
: Keeping in mind the festival rush and to clear the rush of passengers, the railways decided to extend the special train services till the end of September. Visakhapatnam-Tirupati-Visakhapatnam (08547/08548) and Visakhapatnam-Charlapalli-Visakhapatnam (08579/08580) special trains were extended for the convenience of the public.
The train No. 08547 Visakhapatnam-Tirupati Weekly Special train services are extended from August 6 to September 24 (around eight trips). The train will leave Visakhapatnam every Wednesday at 7 pm and will reach
Tirupati
at 9.15 am the next day.
In the return direction, Tirupati-Visakhapatnam (08548) Weekly Special train services are extended from August 7 to September 25 for eight trips. The train will leave Tirupati every Thursday at 9.50 pm and will reach Visakhapatnam at 11.30 am the next day.
Visakhapatnam-Charlapalli (08579) Weekly Special train services are extended from August 8 to September 26 (a total of nine trips) with revised timings. The train will leave Visakhapatnam every Friday at 5.30 pm and will reach Charlapalli at 8 am the next day.
In the return direction, Charlapalli-Visakhapatnam (08580) Weekly Special train will leave from August 9 to September 27 (nine trips) with revised timings.
The train will leave Charlapalli every Saturday at 3.30 pm and will reach Visakhapatnam at 7 am the next day, the Waltair Division Senior Commercial Manager K Saandeep informed.
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