हाटे-बाजारे एक्सप्रेस : चलती - फिरती मछली बाजार - Piyush Singh

Chennai-Madurai Duronto Express still running with 25-year-old coaches.
• The train is being run with old coaches and some of them have been in operation for about 25 years, the maximum operating period. This has been revealed by Southern Railway in an RTI reply
• Bothered by the poor condition of the train’s rake, R Manivannan, a resident of Kolathur, filed a Right to Information (RTI) aplication seeking details about the train. Although initially denied, Manivannan obtained the details after lodging the first appeal.
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the reply, it was stated that the train had all its coaches manufactured between 1992 and 1999. This is a serious issue, considering the maximum lifespan of coaches is only 25 years, beyond which they are pulled out of service and sent to scrap
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