Extension of Bengaluru Kannur express to Kozhikode Operating under the existing timetable, Train No. 16511 will reach Kozhikode at 12.40 p.m. with halts at Thalassery, Vadakara, and Quilandi. Train No. 16512 leaves Kozhikode at 3.30 p.m. The extension should happen at the earliest convenient date, the Ministry said.
The order was issued despite a reported promise by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel last September that the train would not be extended to Kozhikode.
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Mangaluru-based Paschima Karavali Railway Yatri Abhivriddhi Samiti too had opposed the extension on the ground that it would affect the seat availability to passengers from the Karnataka coast.