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Passengers of Bengaluru-Chennai Mail that departed from Bengaluru on the second last day of the year were amused when they noticed Rats and Rodents in their coaches. Desperate attempts to bring this to notice of the TTEs were in vain as all the TTEs were busy shoving away the W/L passengers from their coaches to others back and forth. Ravi Sankaran who claims himself to be a regular traveler in S2 coach of this train was left inconsolable as the "Sleep Killer" train's Rats were going to spoil his already shortened sleep. He was overheard telling his train friend (another IT professional who claimed "he takes Mail regularly") about the ever increasing early arrival of Mail at Chennai. Sources in South Western Railway when contacted claimed that the Rats were not trapped at Bengaluru to prevent a zonal war with Southern Railway as the tiny ones had come from Basin Bridge...
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Yard and had to be returned back to the Bridge. Another SWR employee who had a different opinion said this was part of a "Rat Sharing Arrangement (RSA)" with SR to help "Rat breeding" in Bengaluru yard and they were just sending back the Rats to the "Home Zone" through Mail. A Railfan who had no idea about the commotion in his coach was seen happily posting in a popular Rail Forum site about how the Maximum Permissible Speed (MPS) had increased in Baiyyapanahalli and KR Puram sections and how Mail is "ripping KJM apart". With the train arriving "as usual" 20 minutes Before Time, there were no SR employees available for comments at Chennai Central.