Tag: Special Trains

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for transportation of stranded migrant workers between states, which will designate nodal authorities and make necessary arrangements for receiving and sending them, amid the novel coronavirus-induced lockdown. While issuing the revised SOP, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said for running ‘Shramik’ special trains, […]

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: Amid the COVID-19 Lockdown 4, Indian Railways on Tuesday announced that the largest public sector transported will run 200 non-AC trains from June 1. Informing the same, Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said the railway will run 200 Non-AC trains from June 1, and the online booking for the same will begin soon. […]

New Delhi: In a major relief to passengers, the Indian Railways on Thursday modified the rules for reservation in Special Rajdhani and Special mail and express type trains as it extended the advance reservation period from 30 days to 120 days. A Railway Ministry spokesperson said that the reservation rules for the 30 Special Rajdhani […]

Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway (ECoR) on Tuesday notified that five intra-state trains will run from June 8 till June 30, 2020. All these trains will be special trains and will operate within Odisha State. However, no local train movement will be allowed on Saturdays and Sundays. The list of notified intra-state trains are: 1. Bhubaneswar-Bolangir-Bhubaneswar […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has cancelled three passenger trains in Odisha due to low footfall. All the three trains are intra-state specials that had resumed services from June 8. The three trains that have been cancelled are Sambalpur-Khurda Road-Sambalpur Tri-weekly Special, Bhubaneswar-Bhadrak-Bhubaneswar Tri-weekly Special and Bhubaneswar-Brahmapur-Bhubaneswar Tri-weekly Special Train. ECoR released a statement […]

New Delhi: The Railways has stated that all regular passenger train services will remain suspended till further notice, but 230 special trains will continue to be in service. This is to bring to the notice of all concerned that as decided and informed earlier as well, regular passenger and suburban train services will continue to […]

New Delhi: Besides the 230 trains operating as of now, the Indian Railways has decided to operate 80 more trains from September 12, for which reservations will start from September 10, Railways CEO VK Yadav said on Saturday. “We have decided to operate 80 more special trains from September 12 and reservations for these will […]

With the Centre easing COVID-19 restrictions on several sectors in Unlock 4, the India Railways has decided to run two more pairs of special trains from Odisha starting September 12.

New Delhi: In a good news for the passengers planning to travel during the festive seasons, Railway Board Chairman and CEO V.K. Yadav on Thursday said that the national transporter is planning to introduce 200 special trains between October 15 and November 30 to cater to passenger rush. The railways had suspended all regular passenger, […]

Bhubaneswar: Indian Railways has decided to introduce two more weekly special trains from Bhubaneswar to Delhi in view of the upcoming festive season. While Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar (02813) via Angul-Sambalpur City-Jharsuguda-Rourkela will be introduced from October 17, Duronto Express will start operations from October 21. The Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar train will depart from Bhubaneswar every Saturday at […]

New Delhi: Amid utter confusion over hike in rail passenger fare during the festival season, the Ministry of Railways has reportedly rubbished some news reports in this regard terming them erroneous and misleading. The Railways has said that as per rules, the fare for special trains running during peak demand seasons like festival season and […]

Bhubaneswar: As many as 20 trains originating from the East Coast Railway (ECoR) and five others passing through the railway jurisdiction will now run with revised timings as the Ministry of Railways has decided to run these special trains with revised timings from today (December 1). The special trains will run with revised timings on […]

Bhubaneswar: To facilitate the movement of passengers, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run six more special trains from its jurisdiction from this week. Services of two trains – Bhubaneswar-Tirupati-Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur- Jammu Tawi- Sambalpur have already started, sources said. “Additional Special Trains will run from the second week of January, 2021 and […]

Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to revise the timings of three Special trains running in its jurisdiction effective from next Monday. As per reports, Palasa-Visakhapatnam-Palasa, Palasa-Bhubaneswar-Palasa and Visakhapatnam-Rayagada-Visakhapatnam Express Special trains will run as per the revised timings with effect from January 18, 2021. The revised timing of these trains is as […]

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to facilitate people preferring travel by trains, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to extend the running of 21 pairs of special trains originating from its jurisdiction up to the last week of March, 2021. The list of trains is as follows: 02819/02820 Bhubaneswar-Anand Vihar-Bhubaneswar bi-weekly Special leaving from Bhubaneswar […]