Ministry of Railways has arranged 205 special trains to and from Puri during the return journey of the Trinity called Bahuda Yatra. Special trains will also run for Sandhya Darshan and Suna Besha. Expecting a rush of devotees, Railways has also planned to run more special trains on day after Suna Besha. For the convenience…
Indian Railways Startups Policy is an important initiative in the field of innovation through participation of startup and other entities aims to promote ‘Innovative Culture’ in the country for co-creation and co-innovation in the Railway Sector, East Coast Railway General Manager (I/C) Sharad Kumar Srivastav said at ECoR headquarters in Bhubaneswar on Friday. Representatives from…
Southern Railway has become the first zone in Indian Railways to come under the ‘Bharat Gaurav’ scheme and commence operations of the maiden service from Coimbatore North to Sainagar Shirdi. Indian Railways had launched the theme-based ‘Bharat Gaurav’ train in November 2021. The objective of this theme is to showcase India’s rich cultural heritage and…
Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw launched “StartUps for Railways” on Monday in Rail Bhavan, New Delhi. This policy will bring scale and efficiency in the field of operation, maintenance and infrastructure creation through participation of very large and untapped startup ecosystem. Speaking at the event, Vaishnaw said that the…
In order to have hassle free train movement between Howrah-Chennai and Howrah-Mumbai main line, a third line between Kharagpur and Hijli Station is being constructed. For commissioning of this project, safety related modernisation work for non-interlocking work has started. As a result, some trains will be affected in this route for one day. Some trains…
Keeping in view the demands from travelling passengers, it has been decided to provide stoppage of three pairs of trains at Narla Road Station and two pairs at Rupra Road Station on an experimental basis for a period of six months. 12843/12844 Puri-Ahmedabad-Puri Express (4 days in a week), 18517/18518 Korba-Visakhapatnam-Korba Express and 18005/18006 Howrah-Jagadalpur-Howrah…
Keeping in view the demands of travelling Railway Recruitment Board (RRB) Examination aspirants, it has been decided to run special trains towards different destinations of the country. More than 65 Special Trains have been planned to run for RRB Non-Technical Popular Category (NTPC) Examination candidates across the country for appearing CBT-2 Examination scheduled to be…
Keeping in view of the demands from travelling passengers and to clear additional rush in other regular trains, a special train will run between Brahmapur and Nanded. 07431 Nanded-Brahmapur Special Express will leave Nanded at 1525hrs on every Saturday and will reach Brahmapur at 1430hrs on the next day. In the return direction, 07432 Brahmapur-Nanded…
The services of Puri-Barbil-Puri Express will be restored from May 5 from Puri and on May 6 from Barbil. During the pandemic, the train was restricted because of Covid Protocol. 18416/18415 Puri-Barbil-Puri Express from Puri will leave at 0615hrs and from Barbil will leave at 0915hrs. The train will have stoppages at Sakhigopal, Delang, Khurda…
In view of decreasing number of Covid-19 cases, Indian Railways had announced in March this year to resume the services of bedrolls and linens in the trains and advised Zonal Railways to reintroduce the service for the convenience of the passengers. During the outbreak of the pandemic, passengers travelling in air-conditioned coaches of all trains…
