Title - Railway clarification

The Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division said the special ticket checking drive on the Kanyakumari-bound Jayanti Janata express was launched on Monday in the wake of complaints about unauthorised occupation of reserved coaches by season ticket holders and other commuters.

A statement said the High Court had passed orders to regulate entry of commuters in reserved coaches. Trains are available before and after the Jayanti Janata Express, including 16303 Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram Vanchinad express and 16341 Guruvayur-Thiruvananthapuram Intercity express (fully unreserved trains) which arrive at Thiruvananthapuram before 10 a.m. The statement said only on eight trains daily commuters would be allowed to travel in some of the reserved coaches. These trains are the Kannyakumari-Mumbai express (between Kanyakumari and Ernakulam in coaches S5, S6, S7, and S10 and S8 and S9 up to Palakkad), Kanyakumari-Bangalore Express (between Kanyakumari and Ernakulam in coaches S3 and S4 and up to Palakkad on S12), Thiruvananthapuram-Hyderabad Express (S12 and S13 up to Palakkad), Thiruvananthapuram-Mangalore Malabar Express (up to Kottayam on S6), Mangalore-Thiruvananthapuram Malabar Express (in S5 and S6 between Kottayam and Thiruvananthapuram), Alappuzha-Chennai Express (up to Palakkad in S7), Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai Superfast Express (up to Ernakulam in S10 and S11) and the Alappuzha-Bokaro express (up to Palakkad in S2 and S4).