Travel comfortably.Charger 2 nos are in working condition but always in use .So both end of the coach further 2 nos of charger points have to be provided in this long distance trains.
Cleanliness good .Especially at Erode Junction cleans well.
This ordinary Expresses have to be converted as S/F and operated via Guntakal to Kalluru by skipping Gooty Jn and Salem to Karur via Namakkal by skipping Erode Junction.This shortest route are saved by the distance of ( 18+38 ) 56 km and Loco reversal time 20 minutes at...
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Erode.
So the running time of Mumbai-Nagercoil S/F exp may be saved around 4 to 5 hours and arrived Nagercoil around 10.30 to 11.30 pm instead of the present late night 3.25 am of the next day.
Similarly Nagercoil-Mumbai S/F Expresses arrived Mumbai CST around 16.00 to 17.00 ( 4.00 pm to 5 pm ) in the evening convenient time rather than the present at night 20.50 ( 8.50 pm )

We enter the train with great difficulties.50 to 60 regular commuters disembark and 50 to 60 members enter in S4 compartment on 10.6.2015 at 4.00 pm.Our pnr 8334368451.
The train received in the 6 th platform which has no coach indication boards.No manual coach no from engine also not in the 6 th platform.In between 6 th and 5 th platform we noticed the hundreds of Rodents .We approximately standing in the 7 th coach from engine towards Solapur side and watched Rodents movements after the Deccan exp departure around 3.30 pm to 3.55 pm.
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I request that PUNE area admin / enthusiastic members may please be video around 3.40 pm in between 5 th and 6 th platform regarding the Rodent menaces in this site since on that day i forget to bring Smart phones.
The Pune division may allot just 5 minutes to this Mumbai- Nagercoil exp other than 6 th platform. 6 th platform is very unhygienic with bad smell at that time .But heartening to see some scavengers manually working in that area.
Once again humbly requested PUNE DIVISION to allot platform for the Mumbai- Nagercoil exp other than 6 th platform or 5 minutes only..

Yesterday 03.03.2015,i travel from ALIYAR ARIVU THIRUKOVIL ( Pollachi Taluk in Coimbatore district ) to Kovilpatti.Aliyar to Pollachi by bus.
.I take a ticket from Pollachi to Kovilpatti S/F Senior Citizen 279 km ( Rs 75 ) .I catch Pollachi-Palani-Dindugal-Chennai Central Exp at 16.45 evening.Train starts at 16.45.00 promptly and arrive Dindugal at 19.25 .Then i catch 16339 Mumbai-Nagercoil EXP at 20.00 and arrive Madurai at 21.00.Madurai dep 21.45,arrive Thirupparankundram 21.55 stopped for 45 minutes for crossing but no commercial stoppages ,Then arrive Thirumangalam 22.55 ,stopped for 20 minutes which has also no commercial stoppages Municipality.Finally arrive Kovilpatti at 01.10 am ( scheduled arrival time of Kovilpatti 23.05 ) of the next day .The journey time from Madurai to...
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Kovilpatti of distance 91 km is 4 hours 10 minute at an average speed of 21.8 km per hour.
I noticed that All the southern district people in this train are panic in reaching their home in this odd hour after Madurai.