The government has formed an Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS), which has been tasked to prepare a feasibility plan which will include terms and conditions on financial details and other requirements to operate such operations.
The fifth and eighth coach of the train derailed between Katghar and Moradabad stations at 10:15 am, Northern Railways PRO Deepak Kumar said.
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Thursday flagged off a Diesel Electric Multiple Unit (DEMU) train that would connect the state's southernmost town Sabroom and Dharmanagar, the northernmost one.
The East Central Railway on Wednesday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary by converting an express train to a veritable exhibition on the transformation of "Mohan to Mahatma".
These special passenger and express trains will facilitate devotees from Punjab and other regions, significantly Nanded and Patna Sahib, an official spokesperson said on Monday.
Yadav said the railways has identified 10 more high-speed rail corridors beside the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route to give them to private players. The Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed train is popularly known as the Bullet train project.
Talking to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the SRMU, Southern Railway Mazdoor Union (SRMU) General Secretary Kannaiah said that ticket prices would go up as the private players will do away with concessions. He referred to reports about Railways identifying the New Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express for privatisation and claimed there was also a proposal to handover Chennai-Madurai Tejas Express to private players.
The video of a local train motorman stopping the train to urinate on the tracks has gone viral on social media, prompting demand to install toilets in cabins of motormen and guards.
The Delhi-Varanasi Kashi Vishwanath Express was flagged off by Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, Minister of State (MoS) for Railways Suresh Angadi and BJP MP Meenakashi Lekhi. Families of some of the soldiers who lost their lives were also present on the occasion.
The Delhi High Court asked the Railways on Tuesday as to what steps it has taken, and proposes to take, to ensure availability of clean and safe drinking water on its trains as well as stations.
RPF is steadily adapting and using modern technologies in crime detection. The Electronic-eye of RPF is evolving as a game changer in the field of passenger security over Indian Railways.
The video of the incident, which occurred on June 29, was shared by a passenger named Suyagya Rai on Twitter, and soon became viral on social media as it was widely shared by Twitter users.
Puzzled, passengers of Bengaluru-Patna Sanghmitra Express informed the ticket checker who immediately passed the information to the attendant present in the coach. What led to this technical glitch is not yet know. After a few seconds, the water flow stopped.
A man was stabbed 18 times in front of his 14-year-old son after a "heated argument" over blocking the aisle on a London-bound train in January, a UK court was told.
A huge boulder fell on the track near Lonavala around 8.15 pm Thursday, which held up the Mumbai-Kolhapur Sahyadri Express for over two hours. But an accident was averted as CCTV monitoring staff noticed the boulder in time, a railway official said Friday.
Train services were disrupted in the Sealdah-Hasnabad division as BJP workers squatted on rail tracks at Bhyabla station in North 24 Parganas district and at South 24 Parganas' Taldi railway station.
Seven plastic pipes filled with what appeared to be firecracker powder, connected to batteries with wires, were found on the train when it was being cleaned up at Kurla carshed, a Mumbai police official said.
As soon as the driver noticed smoke coming out of the engine, he immedietely pulled the emergency brakes and stopped the train near Chathaat station.
The officials said prima facie it appeared to be a blast of explosives.
After the fog dissipated, the train, which doesn't have a locomotive, ran at an average speed of 130 kmph, officials said.
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