At present, apart from Island express, there are 4 trains -- 6315/6316 for 3 days in a week, 6321/6322 - once a week, 2257/2258 - for 3 days in a week and the newly introduced KCVL-YPR superfast exp - once in a week. The total number of such services per week is 8. Apart from this, for 2 days, we have 2683/2684 ERS-SBC from Ernakulam. Add together, we have 10 trains from Ernakulam to Bangalore. The surprising fact is that there is no train on fridays and on other days, one train follow another within a gap of 2 hours. What a pity.
We request railways to put some thought and realign the timings of all these trains and unify...
more... to a single daily train from TVC/ KCVL to SBC/YPR with start time from TVC/KCVL by 1700 hours and arrival timing at SBC/YPR by 0830 hours. Also, so many weekly trains with different numbers confuse public and also people from other places wrong feeling that there are 5 different trains to Kerala from Bangalore, whereas Keralites are deprived of any facility from Bangalore to Kerala. Hope some body responds.