The Railway in a statement said that services of these special trains have been cancelled till further orders as Covid cases continue to rise in the country
In view of the second wave of coronavirus, the Indian Railways on Thursday cancelled 28 trains including Duronto-Rajdhani-Shatabdi and Vande Bharat. The Northern Railway has decided to cancel these special trains till further orders as Covid cases continue to rise in the country.
In good news for those travelling between Delhi and Mumbai by rail, the Indian Railways has reduced, by over half an hour, the time of travel in the Rajdhani Superfast special while adding an additional stoppage from January 9, officials said on Thursday.
A Rajdhani special train will run on four days of the week between Mumbai and Hazrat Nizamuddin (Delhi), the Central Railway (CR) said in a release on Wednesday. The CR had suspended its Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani train after the outbreak of coronavirus in March.
Indian Railways has decided to stop Rajdhani Express services between Secunderabad and New Delhi due to poor occupancy.
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence official said a team, acting on a tip-off, boarded the Mumbai-bound Rajdhani Express on Saturday morning and made the seizure and arrests.
To improve the quality of train travel and services, the Modi government will build world-class modern train sets, including more 'Train 18s' and 'Train 20'. The trains will replace Rajdhani and Shatabdi Express by 2020. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today allocated more than Rs 3,000 crore for rail passenger amenities in the 2019-2020 Budget, an around 200 per cent rise from the last fiscal.
Railways Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said that there was were no plans to privatise Rajdhani or Shatabdi express trains.
Railway authorities said they plan to have an upgraded power car for these trains which have coaches manufactured by a German company. The upgraded power car will require only one coach instead of two. It will, therefore, free up the other which will be reserved for women and for the physically challenged.
A railway spokesperson said doctors at Gomoh station attended to those taken ill and all of them are stable.
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Railway Minister Piyush Goyal will flag off the railways' latest Rajdhani on the Mumbai-Delhi route on Saturday.
This will be the first such train passing through the Central zone, covering Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), Kalyan, Nasik, Jalgaon, Khandwa, Bhopal, Jhansi, Agra, and Hazrat Nizamuddin.
Railway’s premium trains Shatabdi and Rajdhani ran late by around 30 per cent and 22 per cent respectively during the last two months
Come April and passengers can avail the opportunity of travelling in Rajdhani or Shatabdi trains even if they have booked tickets in other mail/express trains for the same destinations.
Improvement in signalling system on congested routes has brought down the running time of 14 premier trains including Howrah and Patna Rajdhani Expresses and Delhi-Amritsar Shatabdi. A total of 350 Mails/Expresses and 74 Superfast trains,
The Ministry of Railways has decided to introduce a Flexi Fare system for Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi trains starting September 9. As per the new system, ticket fares will increase by 10 per cent for
Air India has decided to slash its last minute ticket fares to as low as that of 2-tier AC of Rajdhani trains in order to attract more fliers and achieve higher seat occupancy.
Hundreds of passengers aboard the Madgaon-Nizamuddin Rajdhani on Monday went through a rare yet scary experience when the train started to move on its own and ran for about 15 kilometres.
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