Amarkantak Express: Holy for Railfans as holy as Amarkantak is for devotees. - Ayan G

Gulbarga and Mangaluru are their respective status of being corporation (Mahanagar) Cities and obviously ppl of those cities need proper train connection with our state capital and other big towns so for that seamless connection we need them under zone which is occupied in most part of state indirectly it is SWR. If SCR was zone instead of SWR then we would be demanding to get them in SCR so here's no offense on other zones. Regarding Hosur Kuppam Rayadurgam etc etc are these cities actually needed separate zone or are they need to be put into SR and SCoR zones. Even if they shift them what is use as Their locations are such which is not worth to shift them. We having new line Gadag wadi and Ginigera Raichur which is better pre planning due to these lines it makes sense and worth to transfer Hotgi to Raichur part into...
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SWR where these new lines play vital roles in these transfer.. Rayadurgam Tumkuru new line again be part of SWR so making only some intermediate part in SCoR is no useful. Hosur line they can think to transfer into SR but again ppl of that places decision is important if they are happy to be connected with Bengaluru which is in SWR instead of Chennai then no use to transfer then to SR.