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Track renewal picks pace: Goyal effect or renewed focus on safety?

2,075 km of tracks underwent upgrade since January, with the month of March seeing the highest ever track renewal numbers, at 642 km

Letter to BS: Why unmanned crossing is reality of life in many countries?

The only people who deserve our sympathy are the innocents who become a victim of collateral damage due to the foolishness of one person

The strange case of Katni-Damoh rail heist

How could 1.6 km of rail lying alongside an active - and busy - railway track between the two towns be stolen and sold off as scrap?

In rare case, New Delhi bound train loses track, reaches Old Delhi

Once the mistake was realised, the train was immediately diverted back to New Delhi station

Railways won't accept work above Rs 500 mn without DPRs as projects pile up

Several Railways projects are stuck with issues like forest clearances, land acquisition, coastal zone regulation, other local issues

Railways installed over 100,000 bio-toilets in trains at Rs 5.13 bn: Govt

Government said the expenditure booked for installation of bio-toilets by zonal railways from 2015 till December 2017 was Rs 5.13 billion

GE's Make in India plan to kick off with remote monitoring centre in UP

In line with govt's Make in India push, the company is importing only 40 locomotives, as against 100 earlier planned with Railways

Railways collected over Rs 8.5 billion in ticket-related fines, says govt

Rajen Gohain told the Rajya Sabha that during the financial year 2017-18 1.8 million checks were conducted by Zonal Railways

Films, rucksacks, cycles, rods: New safety tools for Railways to save lives

The rod, called Coach Window Rod Snapper Tool, made with high-speed steel, can cut through in 30 to 40 seconds

Revenue from passenger fare up by 5%, freight by 8%, says Railways

Railway Minister Piyush Goyal recently said that the railways had set a target to triple its freight traffic to three billion tonnes by 2030 from the existing 1.1 billion tonnes

Soon, all trains to have 22 coaches, to be able to run on any routes

The changes in the number of trains operating on a route and their timings will reflect in the new time-table, to be published in July

A story of two buildings

Both Baroda House, headquarters of Northern Railways, and Rail Bhavan, headquarters of Indian Railways, were acquired through adverse possession, indelicately referred to as squatter's rights

Railways record 5% jump in freight, passenger traffic in last 8 months

Overall freight loading saw a growth of 747.70 million tonne in these eight months of this year

Addressing safety issues a priority for Railways? No, official data reveals

Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani urged officers to maintain the "safety culture" of the railways

Railways saves over Rs 5,000 cr in power bills in two years

The railways currently sources power through open access route in seven states

Railways will now use big data and AI to make your train travel safer

The failure of signals is one of the major reasons for train accidents and delays

Railways clutching at straws with 'superfast' levy on 48 more trains

The railways is expected to mop up an additional Rs 70 crore from these levies

Railways looking at airline pricing model: Lohani

"The dynamic fare in airlines is really dynamic. It goes up and also comes down, decided by the demand and supply scenario", adds Lohani

Cut red tape, promote efficiency: Railway panel report

It said decisions could move faster if the levels at which a file moved were cut down

No trains to go to Northeast till August 20 as floods damage tracks

Situation has been aggravated after a railway bridge between Maniyan and Kuretha was damaged