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With electrification work on the Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur broad gauge stretch having been accomplished, the 70-km part would soon be ready for introduction of electrical traction.
Pre-commissioning checks of the overhead electrical tools had been presently underway in full swing alongside the stretch.
The Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur part through Kumbakonam is the ultimate leg of the railway electrification venture executed on the 228 km mainline part from Villupuram Junction to Thanjavur Junction through Cuddalore, Chidambaram, Mayiladuthurai and Kumbakonam which comes beneath the huge jurisdiction of the Tiruchi railway division.
The overhead electrification venture on the mainline part was entrusted to the Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL), a Government of India enterprise beneath the Ministry of Railway.
The stretch from Villupuram to Mayiladuthurai had been already energised and commissioned in phases and obligatory clearances obtained from the Commissioner of Railway Safety, Southern Circle, Bengaluru earlier for operation of electrical loco hauled passenger and freight trains on that portion.
A senior RVNL official informed The Hindu that works linked with overhead electrification have been accomplished on the Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur broad gauge stretch and pre-commissioning checks had been presently in progress by deploying a tower wagon. The stretch would soon be ready for commissioning, the official mentioned.
The Southern Railway administration could be submitting related paperwork pertaining to completion of overhead electrification works on the Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur portion to the Commissioner of Railway Safety, Southern Circle, Bengaluru to ask the him for obligatory inspection.
Ahead of the inspection by the Commissioner of Railway Safety, a trial run of an electrical loco was anticipated to be performed.
Only after inspection and acquiring statutory clearance from the Commissioner of Railway Safety, may electrical loco hauled passenger trains be operated on the Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur stretch.
Once the Mayiladuthurai-Thanjavur portion will get commissioned, the complete mainline part would develop into a completely electrified stretch paving the best way for the operation of electrical loco hauled passenger trains from Villupuram to Thanjavur and from thereon as much as Tiruchi Junction.
As a part of the venture, two traction substations constructed at Cuddalore Port and Thanjavur Junction have already been commissioned.
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