Page 3 - Special Trains

No consent needed from destination states to run Shramik Specials: Railways

Earlier, a political storm had broken out when Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were being laggard in approving these trains

Odisha urges Centre to temporarily suspend Shramik trains due to cyclone

Apart from Shramik Special trains, the Indian Railways has also started operating special passenger trains between New Delhi and Bhubaneswar

Indian Railways to start issuing waiting list tickets in special trains

Earlier, the Railways said that no waiting list tickets will be booked and passengers with confirmed tickets will be allowed to board the train

Railways get 45,000 bookings for special trains worth Rs 16 cr on Day 1

45,533 bookings worth Rs 16.15 crore have been recorded for the special trains for the next seven days, the railways said, adding that around 82,317 passengers will travel against these booking

Special train ferries migrants from Hyderabad to Jharkhand in lockdown

Those boarded the train were brought from their workplace at IIT-Hyderabad campus little over 30 kms from Lingampally during the previous night

Social distancing must when trains take stranded workers, students home

These special trains will be operated by the Railway Ministry, said Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla

IRCTC inks MoU with Karnataka tourism to market, run Golden Chariot train

The MoU was signed in the presence of Minister of State of Railways, Suresh C Angadi, and Karnataka Tourism Minister C T Ravi, Chairman Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav amongst others

Special trains between Howrah and Ranchi for Diwali, Chhath from October 15

The special trains would comprise two AC chair car, seven general chair car and three general second-class coaches