Summary:
While special trains were limited to the particular season, the Railways regularly extended the periodicity of the Jabalpur-Coimbatore-Jabalpur weekly special (Train Nos 02198/02197) as it received tremendous passenger patronage. more-inAbrupt discontinuation of a weekly special train between Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu that benefited thousands of passengers in the coast region has surprised many rail patrons. The West Central Railway headquartered in Jabalpur had introduced the service as a summer special about one-and-a-half years ago. It used to leave Jabalpur on Saturdays to reach Coimbatore on Mondays and Coimbatore on Mondays to reach Jabalpur on Wednesdays. The train was running via Itarsi, Bhusaval, Manmad, Panvel, Madgaon, Mangaluru Junction and Palakkad, thereby connecting six States..