Special trains to clear rush during Karthigai deepam festival

: Southern Railway today announced it would run special trains on the Tirunelveli- Tiruvannamalai sector to clear the extra rush of passengers during the coming Karthigai Deepam festival.

Accordingly the Tirunelveli-Tiruvannamalai special train would leave Tirunelveli at 1600 hrs on December 11 (Sunday) and reach Tiruvannamalai at 0440 hrs the next day.

The Tiruvannamalai-Tirunelveli special will leave that city at 2300 hrs on December 12 and reach Tirunelveli at 1230 hrs the next day, a Railway release said.