Southern Railways launches level crossing awareness week

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Press Trust of India Puducherry
Last Updated : Jun 01 2015 | 7:32 PM IST
The Tiruchi Division of Southern Railways has drawn up a plan to observe the level crossing awareness week from today.
A release from the Division said that 350 out of the total 540 level crossings in the division are manned and the remaining are unmanned. It has been proposed to eliminate 60 unmanned level crossings during this financial year by converting 51 unammaned crossings into manned ones while the remaining nine would be converted into subways.
Most vuleranble setions in the Tiruchi divisiion are Villupuram-Puducherry and Cuddalore-Vridhachalam. Limited User Subway would be constructed covering 32 unmanned and four manned level crossings. The press release said that the investment for construction of the limited user subways would be around Rs 3 crores.
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First Published: Jun 01 2015 | 7:32 PM IST

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