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Southern Railway adds festival trains from Keralam for Navarathri
Southern Railway announced special trains from Keralam ahead of the Navarathri festival to help handle extra passenger demand.
The services connect Thiruvananthapuram North with Santragachi and Bengaluru Cantonment.
One train will travel from Thiruvananthapuram North to Santragachi on October 15, with a return service leaving Santragachi on October 18.
Trains between Bengaluru Cantonment and Thiruvananthapuram North will run on October 16 and 17.
The extra services aim to ease festival-season crowding on trains.
Bookings open at 8 a.m.
on October 14.
Southern Railway announced special trains from Keralam ahead of Navarathri to handle extra passenger demand.
The services will connect Thiruvananthapuram North with Santragachi and Bengaluru Cantonment.
The Santragachi-bound train will leave Thiruvananthapuram North on October 15, with a return service on October 18.
The Bengaluru-bound service will leave Bengaluru Cantonment on October 16, with a return service on October 17.
Bookings for all the special trains will open on October 14 at 8 a.m.
- Who
- Southern Railway announced the special trains.
- What
- Four special train services will connect Thiruvananthapuram North with Santragachi and Bengaluru Cantonment.
- When
- The services are scheduled for October 15, 16, 17 and 18, 2026; bookings open October 14 at 8 a.m.
- Where
- The trains will run between Thiruvananthapuram North and Santragachi, and between Thiruvananthapuram North and Bengaluru Cantonment.
- Why
- To handle extra rush in trains ahead of the Navarathri festival.
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Southern Railway announced the festival special trains.
Bookings for all the special trains are scheduled to open.
Train No. 06105 is scheduled to leave Thiruvananthapuram North for Santragachi.
Train No. 06575 is scheduled to leave Bengaluru Cantonment for Thiruvananthapuram North.
The return services are scheduled to leave Thiruvananthapuram North for Bengaluru Cantonment on October 17 and Santragachi for Thiruvananthapuram North on October 18.
- Santragachi-bound train
- No. 06105; leaves Thiruvananthapuram North at 2:15 p.m. on October 15
- Santragachi return train
- No. 06106; leaves Santragachi at 2:15 p.m. on October 18
- Bengaluru-bound train
- No. 06575; leaves Bengaluru Cantonment at 4:40 p.m. on October 16
- Bengaluru return train
- No. 06576; leaves Thiruvananthapuram North at 12:40 p.m. on October 17
- Bookings
- Open October 14, 2026, at 8 a.m.
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