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Railway station facelift likely to get a Chinese touch

Railways estimates programme will benefit more than 100 cities and 16 million passengers a day

Railways to come up with mini-budget tomorrow

With railway budget becoming a history, the roadmap ofIndian railways for a financial year which used to get released with the Budgethas also become thing from the past now. To bring in a new tradition, railway minister Suresh Prabhu is set tolaunch Indian Railways Freight and Passenger Business Action Plan -2017-18,which railway officials are terming as "mini-budget". "Traditionally, a normal railway budget has about 135 pages,out of which about 100 pages are on the action plan for the financial year.With the budgets getting merged, we are unable to present it before parliament.Hence, this launch is like a mini budget," said an official source close to thedevelopment. The plan will be launchedat the railway museum in Delhi tomorrow. The Narendra Modi-led government has broken a 92-year-oldtradition of presenting a separate railway budget this year. This was based ona report by Bibek Debroy, a member of Niti Ayog. The rail Budget was separatedfrom the main Budget, following ...

Indian Railways: Train-2018 will begin its run at 160 kmph from Chennai ICF

Aptly named 'Train-2018', the first trainset is expected to be ready by March next year

NITI Aayog could pitch for new programme to link remote areas by railways

To be modelled along the lines of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Railways changes tracks, offers virtual tourism

Google, IRCTC and Taj Hotels are on the fast track to give a fresh look to Delhi's National Rail Museum

Indian Railways: Mathura station rewarded for train operations, sanitation

The North Central Railway has declared cash awards to the railway station and its employees

Manish Rathi & Kapil Raizada: Dynamic pricing and its fallout

The Indian Railways is losing its premium travel base faster than ever before

Tri-Netra to help trains beat fog delays

By end-2017, about 3,000 trains may have system used by the air force

Lack of accounting clarity comes in way of wallet use by railways

Waiving of the service charge will cost Rs 500 cr on an annualised basis

Bold pricing experiments help railways fare better

The railways, in Sept last year, had introduced dynamic pricing in the Rajdhani, Shatabdi & Duronto trains

Rail freight revenue short by Rs 7,000 cr

Drop in coal, cement bookings in first 9 months; however, passenger traffic collection up after 3 years

Railways eyes non-ticket revenue, to offer space for 2,400 ATMs, hoardings

Suresh Prabhu will launch the non-fare revenue policy, a first in Railways

Fancy a unique wedding destination? You can now opt for a railway platform

Indian Railways will allow the public to hold wedding receptions on its platforms soon

68% cashless transactions: Digitisation on express mode in Indian Railways

The percentage of cashless transactions on reserved tickets zoomed from 58% to 67.8%

A year of safety lapses with introduction of new services in Railways

As the national carrier grapple with a string of accidents that cast a shadow on safety measures

Indian Railways announce 10% rebate in vacant train berths

However, the discount will be applicable on the surged fare base and not on the original base fare

Railways' roundtable in January to improve functioning

Better energy management, proliferation of solar and wind power are also in the roundtable agenda

Indian Railways ends flexi fare experiment on two stretches

The rollback would result in reduction of fares of the trains on the said sections by an average of nine to 24%

Cabinet to take call on Indian Railways pricing regulator in two weeks

The Rail ministry has sought views from a few ministries and the NITI Aayog regarding this, say Sources

Railways to replace coach couplings in 4 years: Official

The design for new wagons with radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices are ready, says Yatish Kumar