Hyerabad: Sanjay Kumar Srivastava, General Manager, South Central Railway conducted a detailed inspection of newly commissioned chord-line between Sitafalmandi – Lallaguda section today. Santosh Kumar Verma, Divisional Railway Manager, Hyderabad Division and other senior Railway officials from the headquarters and division accompanied him throughout the inspection.
Sanjay Kumar Srivastava commenced his inspection from Sitafalmandi station where in he inspected the station premises, circulating area, station cleanliness, waiting hall, ticket counters, platforms and observed passenger amenities available at the station. He also inspected the Station Master’s room and checked the signalling system and safety equipment available in the station.
Further, the General Manager conducted a trolley inspection between newly constructed & commissioned Sitafalmandi – Lallaguda chord line section. He also inspected the signals, points, crossings of the newly commissioned line. The newly commissioned line connects the Secunderabad – Kazipet mainline with Secunderabad – Dhone line bypassing Secunderabad station.
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The salient features of newly commissioned chord-line:
The distance of this line is around 3 km.
5 minor bridges constructed as a part of construction of this line.
Alugadda Baavi RUB is the major bridge on this line
Total automatic signaling system is provided on this section.
Till now, for the trains coming from Kazipet to Kacheguda bypassing Secunderabad, the trains generally passes through Moula-Ali, Malkajgiri to Kacheguda which is almost 15 km distance.
With introduction of this line both distance and travel time reduces drastically. Trains from Kazipet directly reach Kacheguda via Lallaguda and vice versa with reduction in the distance almost by 12 kms and travel time by around 20 minutes.
This new chord line takes off from Lallaguda and passes through Sitafalmandi ‘A’ cabin and Sitafalmandi ‘B’ cabin and joins at Sitafalmandi station.
Further, Sanjay Kumar Srivastava inspected the Lallaguda station, signalling, safety equipment and interacted with the stationmaster.
