Member of Parliament Anup Mishra, Mayor Vivek Shejwalkar, SADA president Rakesh Jadon, Municipal Corporation Chairman Rakesh Mahaur flagged off the link express here on Friday.
This train will be helpful for the passengers of Etawa. Jhansi-Gwalior-Bhind-Etawa (11801/11802) link express has been sanctioned by Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu and Central Minister Uma Bharti from Delhi to Gwalior through video conferencing and shown the green flag .
The train arrived at Gwalior Railway station 4:27 pm and later, this link express with eight coaches departed by showing green flag. On this occasion, area manager Anil Sharma, Station master PP Chaube , Deputy SS Rajesh shukla, RPF TI TK Agnihotri , GRP TI Prakash Sen were also present . Four coaches of will be removed from link express will at Gwalior Railway Station and connect it to Intercity Indore.
Apart from Gwalior link express will start off from Jhansi at 17.25 hours. This train will reach to datia by 17.49 hours, dabra18.13 hours, Gwalior 19.75 hours, Bhind 21.50 hours and Etawa 22.45 hour. The link express will return from Etawa early morning at 4:30, will reach respective stations Bhind at 5.15 hours, Gwalior 7.50 hours, Dabra 8.57 hours, Datia 9.25 hours and Jhansi 10.06 hours.
DRM SK Agarwal has assured that DRC train will start again between Gwalior to Sheopur. City congress representatives discussed about the railway related problems with Agarwal. In the discussion city congress representatives have demanded to bring the Ahmedabad express to Gwalior which at present runs only upto Agra.