Page 2 - Special Trains

Restart Shramik Special trains from Odisha: Pradhan to rail minister

Pradhan has written to Piyush Goyal requesting him to restart Shramik Special trains from Odisha to ferry migrant workers back to their workplace in states like Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra

South Western Railways to run 40 pairs of special trains from Sept 12

According to a statement issued by the SWR on Saturday, these services shall be in addition to the Shramik specials and the special trains, which are already in operation

Railways to run 80 new special trains from Sept 12; bookings from Sept 10

Yadav said the Railways will be monitoring all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which trains have long waiting list

More special trains being planned, states being consulted: Rail Ministry

To ease passenger movement in high-demand areas, the Railways will run more special trains apart from the 230 plying currently, for which consent has been sought from state governments

South Eastern Railway to regulate trains on total lockdown days in Bengal

The SER has also decided to cancel Bhubaneswar-Howrah Special leaving Bhubaneswar

Govt 'profiting out of misery of poor': Yechury on Shramik trains' revenue

In a tweet, Yechury tagged reports that Railways earned Rs 429 crore from the migrant special trains and said the "attitude" of the government was "shameful"

All regular trains cancelled till August 12: Here's what you need to know

All special trains -- 12 pairs running on the Rajdhani routes since May 12 and 100 pairs operating since June 1 -- will continue

Covid-19 impact: All regular trains cancelled till August 12, says railways

Source said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country

Story in numbers: Job hunt, marriage major driver of internal migration

Between 2001 and 2011, while the population grew by 18%, the number of migrants jumped 45%

Railways receive requests for 63 Shramik Special trains from 7 states

Of the total, a maximum of 32 trains will depart from Kerala while the destinations of most trains will be West Bengal (23), followed by Bihar (10), Assam (5)

SC mulls giving 15 days to Centre, states to transport all migrant workers

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said state governments can tell as to how many more migrant workers need to be shifted and how many trains are required for that purpose

200 special train to run from Jun 1; 145,000 passengers to travel on day 1

These services will be in addition to Shramik Special trains and 30 Special AC trains being run since May 12

After flak over Shramik, Rlys says only 71 out of 3,840 trains diverted

Over the past few days, at least nine people lost their lives in different Shramik trains, for which the reasons were allegedly lack of supply of food and water

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Who is feeding migrant workers, paying for their travel, SC asks govt

9.1 million migrant workers taken to their home states till Wednesday during a nationwide lockdown, says government.

Mamata seeks PM's intervention in railways sending Shramik Special trains

The state's infrastructure is "stretched to its limit" following the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan

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Train ticket booking, refund, tatkal during coronavirus: What you must know

Indian Railways has resumed operations of around 200 trains. All you need to know about the IRCTC special trains, ticket booking, tatkal and refund rules amid coronavirus lockdown

For every positive coronavirus case, 20 negative tests done: ICMR

The government, however, said the mortality rate had remained less than half of the global average of 6.65 per cent.

Railways to restart counter ticket bookings, run more trains soon

500,000 tickets booked in three hours for 200 trains starting on June 1