City railway station goes cool

City railway station goes cool
Vijay Times

EVEN as eight air-conditioned retiring rooms and an air-conditioned lounge were inaugurated at the Bangalore City Railway Station on Friday , the officials of the South W estern Railway (SWR) made it clear that they were keen on completing such works as early as possible.

Inaugurating the amenities, SWR General Manager T N P erti said, "The new tariffs for using the reno vated retiring rooms are yet to be finalised." "W e are planning to construct five new platforms, three in Y eshwanthpur and two in Cantonment, to ease traffic at the Bangalore City Railway S tation," he added.

"Construction of end-to-end platforms in the Cantonment and 12 new retiring rooms and a dormitory at the City S tation, apart from reno vating 14 retiring rooms and raising of platforms at the City station are some of the other projects in the pipeline," added P erti.

"This time, there will be more summer special trains than last year . The ’Y atri Niwas’, announced in the earlier Budget, is likely to come up in the premises of the new building at the Y eshwanthpur Railway Station," he added.

On the grand ’P alace-on-Wheels’ train, he said, "So far , we have not received any official communication from the government. H owever , we are eager to work on this project. Before working on this, we would like to take up the Bijapur-Bagalkot gauge conversion work on a priority basis."