I visited the ghatkesar station yesterday to check for any interesting developments. The approach to the station leaves a lot to be desired, the renovation/construction work not withstanding.
The level of the platform on the down line to KZJ has been raised by about 4-6 inches at most places. Perhaps, this was done to ready the station for MMTS ? The other platform is yet to be raised. I inquired and found out that ” I can expect MMTS but not in the near future”. Whatever that word ” near future” means, it sounds very ominous. Nevertheless, I was excited that something is happening on the MMTS front in this line.
A bit of earthwork/ platform tiling, FOB construction is also in progress.
I took the late running pushpull service back to SC today. It was a near-cinematic last minute dash to the platform 
. A pleasant and quick ride home. Considering a representation to delay the pushpull by about 40 mins from scheduled time so that many college faculty and others in offices can take the train home, saving time on the journey.
July 20, 2008 at 10:27 am |
I happen to visit Ghatkesar once 4 months back.I did not know Telanagna did not have a stop there.So went to Bhongir and took the train.Yes lot of work is going on but no talk of extending MMTS in budget too
i mentioned this as one of the points in my letter to scr way back in oct 2007
20.Please link up other suburban areas like medchal
and ghatkesar as many people come from this areas to
lingampally line.
and some excerpts from my mail to scr on 8th may 2008
“people are herded as pigs in push pull/kakatiya
when there is so much potential and trafiic why rlys
not runing more services?every inch of bogie was
filled with passengers when i travelled by push pull
from bhongir to jangaon.both my journeys were on a
working day and at odd hours(3.30pm and 11.30am).i
sent a note to SCR on this occasion too.”
“hope someone in rlys will take seriously my note and
arrange to send your official and get first hand
experience on plights of comman man
I aslo requested SCR to increase security and check
illegal passengers in MMTS but to no avail
Please penalise the offenders 10-20 times then only
they will realise otherwise what is the difference in
those following rules and those breaking the rules
Since our law is so slack people are making mockery
and there are repeated offenders.”