Category: Railway News

Overcoming all hurdles and finding new solutions, Indian Railways is continuing its journey of bringing relief by delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) to various states across the country. So far, Indian Railways has delivered 1585MT (approx) of LMO in 103 tankers to various states across the country. 27 Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey and 6 more loaded Oxygen Express… Continue reading "Delhi to receive 244 tonnes more Oxygen Today; With this, Oxygen Expresses would deliver nearly 450 MT of LMO to Delhi alone in 24 hours, counting from deliveries that took early hours today"

In the relentless fight against Covid, the Ministry of Railways are undertaking movement of Isolation Coaches to places of demand by respective states on a war-footing, mobilising workforce and material for this task through rapid action. The Railways has deployed a fleet of nearly 4000 Isolation coaches with almost 64000 beds to serve as Isolation Units. These Isolation Coaches can… Continue reading "Railway deploys 19 Isolation Coaches at Sabarmati & Chandlodiya as per demand of State Govt. of Gujarat"

Overcoming all hurdles and finding new solutions, Indian Railways is continuing its journey of bringing relief by delivering Liquid Medical Oxygen(LMO) to various states across the country. So far, Indian Railways has delivered 1125 MT (approx.) of LMO in 76 tankers to various states across the country. 20 Oxygen Expresses have already completed their journey and 7 more loaded Oxygen… Continue reading "Facing once in century challenge head on, 20 Oxygen Expresses complete their journey, delivering 1125 MT (approx.) LMO in 76 tankers"

On a mission mode, Indian Railways is going to deliver more than 140 MT liquid oxygen in next 24 hrs. Currently, 9 tankers are already on the run, out of which 5 will reach Lucknow by tonight and remaining 4 containers of LMO which have already started from Bokaro are expected to reach Lucknow tomorrow early. So far, Oxygen Express… Continue reading "Indian Railways to deliver more than 140 MT liquid oxygen in next 24 hrs"

Indian Railways is running special train services all across the country for the convenience of passengers. These services include Mail/Express Trains, Passenger Trains and Suburban Trains. Apart from regular train services, additional trains are being run during April-May 2021 as summer special trains. As on 20.04.2021, Indian Railways is running total 1512 special train services(Mail/Express and Festival Specials) on an… Continue reading "In last 10 days, Indian Railways operates total 432 special train services from Maharashtra and 1166 special train services from Delhi area"

Indian Railways will continue to provide trains services as per demand. Presently, Indian Railways is running total 1402 specials train services on an average per day. Total 5381 Suburban train services and 830 Passenger train services are also operational. Apart from this, 28 special trains are being operated as clones of highly patronized trains with high patronage. Moreover, additional trains are being run… Continue reading "Indian Railways to continue running the trains as per demand"

Railway Coach Factory / Kapurthala has recently rolled out the first prototype Linke Hofmann Busch (LHB) AC three-tier economy class coach of Indian Railways (IR). Trial has been successfully completed. This is a new variant of LHB AC three-tier coach with features enumerated as below:- Electrical panels with reduced footprint on the passenger deck, releasing additional floor space for passenger… Continue reading "Rolling Out of First AC Three Tier Economy Class Coach"

Indian Railways, through Indian Railway Catering & Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), is operating various tourist trains such as Bharat Darshan/ Aastha Circuit Tourist, Pilgrim Tourist Trains, State Special Tourist Trains, Deluxe Tourist Trains, Buddhist Circuit Train and Luxury Tourist Trains which are connecting major historical cities/tourist places of the country viz. Ayodhya, Varanasi, Ujjain, Agra, Prayagraj, Baidyanath, Bodhgaya, Rajgir, Nalanda, Nagpur,… Continue reading "Trains to Tourist Places"

Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Government of India inaugurated and dedicated a host of infrastructure projects, projects related to passenger amenities and facilities at various railway stations in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal and Karnataka through video conferencing today. 88 Railway projects were dedicated to the… Continue reading "Shri Piyush Goyal dedicates 88 Railway projects to Nation worth more than Rs. 1000 crore in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh , West Bengal and Karnataka"

There have been a series of reports in the media about resumption of full passenger train services from a given April date. Clarification is constantly being given to the media about it for last few days. It is being reiterated again that no such date has been fixed for resumption of all passenger trains operations. Railways has been increasing the… Continue reading "Clarification about resumption of full passenger train services"