Special Trains

Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd says 'no purpose' in building Kedarnath leg of Char Dham rail

The first train under the scheme carrying 1,000 elderly pilgrims will depart for Ayodhya on December 3

IRCTC has announced to run a number of Special Trains to clear extra rush of passengers during Christmas and New Year 2022.

The IRCTC has planned a series of Shri Ramayana Yatra Tours

Over 10 crore litres of milk has so far been transported by 'Doodh Duronto' special trains from Renigunta of Andhra Pradesh to the national capital, the Railway Ministry said.

In view of shortage of containers in Rajasthan amidst the pandemic, a special train carrying 180 shipping containers from Mundra port in Gujarat will arrive here on Saturday. This is for the first time that double-stack container train is arriving in Jaipur for the Inland Container Depot of Rajasthan Small Industries Corporation Limited (RAJSICO), an official said. The train has been flagged off from Mundra on Thursday and shall arrive on destination by Saturday. The train will be carrying empty containers for timely assistance for the local export-related businesses. The disruption caused by the COVID pandemic has resulted in a shortage of shipment containers in Rajasthan. This has directly affected the exports. The double-stack train will help address the shortage issue. "Rajsico is working towards assisting small industries in the state with exports and with the commencement of the double stack train the process shall gain further momentum," Rajesh Sharma, managing director, ...

Out of the 736 special trains currently in operation, 327 have passengers in the waiting list, the Railways said Monday

The Railways on Tuesday announced that it will operate 392 festival special trains between October 20 and November 30 in view of the upcoming festive season.

The South Central Railway announced that it will operate eight more special trains connecting various destinations in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

After announcing five special trains the day before, the Central Railway (CR) on Thursday announced another eight trains connecting various cities in Maharashtra

The East Coast Railway started four special trains on Saturday and Sunday for the candidates appearing in National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) to be held on September 13

Occupancy in trains originating from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal for journeys towards Karnataka and Telangana maintained an average occupancy of around 30 per cent

Pradhan has written to Piyush Goyal requesting him to restart Shramik Special trains from Odisha to ferry migrant workers back to their workplace in states like Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra

According to a statement issued by the SWR on Saturday, these services shall be in addition to the Shramik specials and the special trains, which are already in operation

Yadav said the Railways will be monitoring all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which trains have long waiting list

To ease passenger movement in high-demand areas, the Railways will run more special trains apart from the 230 plying currently, for which consent has been sought from state governments

The SER has also decided to cancel Bhubaneswar-Howrah Special leaving Bhubaneswar

In a tweet, Yechury tagged reports that Railways earned Rs 429 crore from the migrant special trains and said the "attitude" of the government was "shameful"

All special trains -- 12 pairs running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1 -- will continue

Source said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country