Here is an article where the district official has said he will talk to IR to start the passenger train services from Swamihalli that existed in MG era.
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Nice question by the reporter to these people - why they didn't agitate for the past 20 years?
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more... We were tired of fighting illegal mining all these days :)
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Hope they agitate for passenger trains from now on atleast, else nothing will happen.