{"id":643183,"date":"2024-05-01T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643183"},"modified":"2024-05-01T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T07:10:14","slug":"tamil-nadu-broad-gauge-for-13-yrs-no-direct-train-to-velankanni-from-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tamil-nadu-broad-gauge-for-13-yrs-no-direct-train-to-velankanni-from-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu: Broad gauge for 13 yrs, no direct train to Velankanni from Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: It has been over 13 years since the railway line from Nagapattinam to Velankanni was converted to broad gauge (BG) and thrown open for service. However, a daily service from Chennai to Velankanni, a popular pilgrimage and tourist destination in the delta district, remains a distant dream.<\/p>\n<p>The absence of a direct train from Chennai to Velankanni compels thousands of tourists and devotees to opt for buses and alternative modes of transportation during the summer vacation and festival seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: It has been over 13 years since the railway line from Nagapattinam to Velankanni was converted to broad gauge (BG) and thrown open for service. However, a daily service from Chennai to Velankanni, a popular pilgrimage and tourist destination in the delta district, remains a distant dream. The absence of a direct train from Chennai to Velankanni compels thousands of tourists and devotees to opt for buses and alternative modes of transportation during the summer vacation and festival seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,267,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}