Indian Railways – New Concept to run new trains with existing rakes

•Indian Railways must consider running new trains with idling rakes of trains for more than 10 hours in various stations across India. The idling rakes are those which have arrived early morning and will be put to use only in the night. So even if maintenance is done it will have window of 10 hours minimum to operate as a day time train. The idling rakes can play a major role in distance of 400kms or less with much ease and pair rakes available.
•If a pair of trains are idling at both points then they can be run in the day time to reach their respective starting points so the entire train is not affected at all at the same time the rake has been utilised for an extra journey also. This will help bring in Railways extra revenue as your idling rake is going to bring you revenue as well as you are completing maintenance in 4 hours or so also. The availability of engines must not be a major concern as we have enough engines and railway staff required. Railways might easily give some reasons for this method but at least give a try with few trains across India.
•This concept will be very useful in concepts of trains of less than 400kms distance or around with the time frame available. This concept can at least be tried in certain routes instead of down right saying it cant be possible. There is nothing wrong in trying new things there might be a very big scope to earn or double the revenue in a route by operating new trains which Indian Railways might not have even thought of.
•These trains can be trailed on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday only as other days the success of the scheme cant be ensured. Many will put leave on Friday and start to travel to their destination and same for Monday also. The 4 days can help reap in huge revenues in selecting routes and trains which can be considered for this concept. Also running second sitting trains if any rake unused at night can be used to shuttle a trip if possible for public.
•For example idling rakes of Rock Fort Express (Train No 1677 and 16178) which are unused from 05:30 to 22:30 can be used to run day time train between Chennai to Trichy which has super high demand for trains. Since the train has 2 pair of rakes it can be re-used once run as day time train and reaches the respective destinations for usage at night time for normal operations. It will be major success if trailed on Friday, Saturday, Sunday immediately to gauge success. Also DRM Chennai will take decision on time of trains based on maintenance schedule adjusted to succeed in this step.
•Similar pattern applies to Uzhlavan express (Train no : 16183/16184) (Can run one more trip between Chennai to Thanjavur) and pandian express (Train no: 12637/12638) (Can run one more trip between Chennai to Madurai) as day time trains instead of wasting double line between MAS-VM.
•Please consider launching train from New Delhi to Rameswaram as a mark of respect for APJ Abdul Kalam. The train can be named as APJ Abdul Kalam as a respect for the great soul. Currently trains are not run in the name of any personality. It can also be named of Govt choice if any concerns. The train must touch Chennai, Trichy, Madurai. The possible departure from Delhi on Sunday at 08:35 (Bhopal: 19:05, Nagpur:01:15, BALHARSHAH:04:30 Vijayawada: 11:35, Egmore:18:50, Villupuram: 21:20, Trichy: 00:35, Madurai:03:25, Rameswaram:07:30 ) or with Wednesday/Friday departure at New Delhi 06:45 (Bhopal: 16:15, Nagpur:22:20, BALHARSHAH:01:30 ,Vijaywada:08:00,Egmore:15:10, Villupuram: 17:50, Trichy: 21:00, Madurai: 00:15, Rameswaram: 04:30). The current Govt has got bad name for not running any new train for last 2 years and avoided this issue.
•Need for passenger or express trains between Chennai Egmore -  Tiruvannamalai (TNM) via Villupuram (VM) a religious town for Shiva named Annamalaiyar temple a representation of fire and is one of the Pancha Bhoota Stalas. There were trains run for decades before last government stopped the trains and forgot to re-run the trains. It has been a great difficulty for people as every day thousands have to go and buses are people have to entirely depend on buses to go to the temple. The train can be run with existing rake of Chennai – Pondicherry express rake to run a train departure from Chennai at 7AM reaches around 11:30 at tiruvannamal, return from Thiruvannamalai at 12 to Chennai at 1PM, Chennai to Thiruvannamalai between 1PM – 6PM, last train with overnight from Thiruvannamalai at 11:45 to travel overnight to Chennai at 05:00. Somehow you run a train at least twice or thrice a day. The train ran years ago but it was stopped for no reason and it has deprived temple goers severely as people and elderly prefer direct trains