Transition Meet: Mysuru additional divisional railway manager Shammas Hameed and other branch officers from the divison hold a meeting in Mangaluru before the railway region was officially moved under the Mysuru division at midnight, Thursday
The PRO said administrative and financial bifurcation would take another 30 to 45 days, as contracts, tenders, bills, works and service contracts currently clubbed with Palakkad have to be separated. Officials said there would be no immediate change in train services due to the jurisdictional shift.
Mysuru Divisional Railway Manager Mudit Mittal said the primary change was the transfer of train control from Palakkad to Mysuru. Mittal said Mysuru has added a fourth control board to handle the Mangaluru region, while the Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) prepared minute-to-minute transition plan. Mittal said the railways do not anticipate major challenges during the transition, as CRIS had handled similar zonal changes and prepared a standard operating procedure. Mysuru’s PRO said the division had already taken over operational control and railway assets, including stations, bridges, land and sidings.
CRIS monitored the system for about two-and-a-half hours after the transfer, expecting the process to stabilise by 3am. The new control board will cater to seven major stations and one halt and coordinate with Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd, Palakkad and Mysuru divisions. Mysuru is coordinating with the Palakkad finance team on the process. Mysuru Division would first study platform lengths, existing train movements and capacity of Mangaluru Central and Mangaluru Junction before considering additional services. They added that the crew exchanges would be determined based on operational requirements, with running rooms available at Mangaluru Junction and Mangaluru Central.
26655/26656 Yesvantpur-Mangaluru-Madgaon Vande Bharat Express with revised timings. The letter was in response to Chowta’s Aug 6 last year request for introduction of a new Vande Bharat between Mangaluru and Bengaluru.
Vaishnaw said the service would now operate as train No. In a letter to Dakshina Kannada MP, Capt Brijesh Chowta, railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw informed that the existing Madgaon-Mangaluru VB Express has been extended to Bengaluru via Subrahmanya Road and Kabaka Puttur.