Indian Railways Special Trains: Due to large number of Indigo flights being cancelled, passengers are facing difficulties travelling from one place to another. In light of this, Indian Railways has released a list of special trains to ensure that passengers do not face any problems during their journeys.
Indian Railways Special Trains: Special trains will run on these routes
Following widespread flight cancellations by IndiGo, the railways announced on Saturday that it would operate special trains across the country.
Western Railway will operate seven special trains:-
Mumbai Central–New Delhi
Mumbai Central–Bhiwani
Mumbai Central–Shakur Basti
Bandra Terminus–Durgapura
Valsad–Bilaspur
Sabarmati–Delhi
Sabarmati–Delhi Sarai Rohilla
Central Railway announced 14 special trains:-
Pune-Bengaluru
Pune-Hazrat Nizamuddin
LTT-Madgaon
CSMT-Delhi
LTT-Lucknow
Nagpur-Mumbai
Gorakhpur-LTT
Bilaspur-LTT route
South Eastern Railway Special Trains
Santragachi-Yelahanka
Howrah-CSMT
Cherlapalli-Shalimar
North Western Railway Special Trains
Durgapura (Jaipur)-Bandra Terminus
Hisar-Khadki
Delhi Sarai-Sabarmati
IRCTC Big Announcement: Special Trains Launched for Passengers
The 84 new special trains include 10 from Northern Railway, 6 from Western Railway, 4 from South East Central Railway, 6 from East Central Railway, 10 from Southern Railway, 8 from North Eastern Railway, 8 from South Central Railway, 4 from South Eastern Railway, 4 from Eastern Railway, 4 from North Western Railway, 12 from Central Railway, and 8 other trains.
Some of these trains commenced operations on Saturday. The remaining trains are planned to be gradually introduced by December 11th. These arrangements are part of a nationwide rail expansion initiative following widespread flight cancellations by IndiGo.
Increased number of coaches in trains
According to the Ministry of Railways, a total of 116 additional coaches have been added to 37 trains across the country, resulting in more than 114 extra trips. These additional coaches, including AC chair cars and sleeper class coaches, have been added on routes experiencing high passenger demand. This temporary increase came into effect on Saturday and will remain in place until December 10 for most services, while some trains will have the extra coaches until December 12.
As per the directive, Southern Railway will add one AC three-tier coach each to the Thiruvananthapuram Central-Dr. MGR Chennai Central Super fast Express (No. 12696) and the Mumbai CST-Chennai Beach Superfast Express (No. 22157) on Sunday. The Jodhpur-Tiruchirappalli Humsafar Express (No. 20481) will have an extra AC three-tier coach on December 10. Additionally, the Dr. MGR Chennai Central-Coimbatore Shatabdi Express (No. 12243), which commences its journey on Sunday, will temporarily have an extra chair car coach.
Its return service, the Coimbatore-Dr. MGR Chennai Central Shatabdi Express (No. 12244), will also run with an extra chair car. Furthermore, three trains commencing their journeys on Sunday—the Salem-Chennai Egmore Express (No. 22154), the Erode-Dr. MGR Chennai Central Yercaud Superfast Express (No. 22650), and the Alappuzha-Dr. MGR Chennai Central Super-fast Express (No. 22640)—will each have an extra sleeper class coach.
Indigo Flight Crisis: IndiGo Airlines in serious trouble
IndiGo Airlines faced a serious crisis at the beginning of December. Due to new pilot duty regulations, which came into effect on November 1st, there was a shortage of pilots. As a result, more than a thousand flights had to be cancelled on December 5th, including all domestic flights from Delhi. Hundreds of passengers were stranded at airports like Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, luggage piled up, and passengers even staged protests. Meanwhile, other airlines doubled their fares. The government ordered that refunds be completed by December 7th and granted an exemption for night duty. It is expected that the situation will return to normal soon.
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