Railways to overcome summer rush by running special trains
   Date :26-Mar-2019

 
 
 
Staff Reporter,
 
 
Concerned over rush of passengers in all the trains, especially during summer vacation, Railways has announced several special trains and additional coaches. After Holi and Rang Panchami, summer vacation of schools begin and this puts extra burden on Railways to arrange special trains and coaches. According to officials, months from April to June are the peak days as people plan their holidays in bulk. During this period, Railways announced several summer special trains and place additional coaches in most of trains. If you are planning to visit your home town or a relative, one might be lucky to get reservation confirmed in several special trains. West Central Railway alone will be running dozens of trains on several routes to facilitate passengers who are still puzzled with the reservation during summer vacations. There are large number of people planned to visit their relatives of holiday trips to some destination but due to unavailability of reserved berth, they are quite hopeless. According to Railways, train 02189 Habibganj-Rewa Special Express will be running on March 23, 24 and 25 and train 02190 Rewa-Habibganj special express will be departing on March 23, 24 and 25.
 
There will be eight AC-III, eight Sleeper, two general and 2 SLR coaches. Railways has also announced 08061/08062 Shalimar-Jaipur-Shalimar special Express to be run in different schedule. Train 08061 will be running from April 1 to June 24 while 08062 will be running from April 3 to June 26. Train 08061 Shalimar-Jaipur weekly special will be departing on every Monday at 20:20 hours and will be arriving on Wednesday at 6:35 hours. In the same way train 08062 Jaipur-Shalimar weekly special express will be departing on every Wednesday at 12:50 hours and arriving on Thursday at 23:40 hours. The train will be taking halt at Durgapur, Vanasthali Van, Sawai Madhopur, Kota, Ruthai, Guna, Bina, Sagar, Damoh, Katni Murwara, Shahdol, Anupur, Pendra Road, Bilaspur, Chapa, Raigarh, Jharsuguda, Raurkela, Chakradhar, Tatanagar, Kharagpur and Santragachi station.
 
There will be four AC-II, five C-III, four sleeper and 2 SLR coaches. Facilitating the passengers, Railways has announced special halt of train 18478/18477 Puri-Haridwar-Puri Utkal Express at Jaithari station for six months purely on experiment basis. This decision has been taken by railway keeping view the demand of passengers for long time. Railway has also announced 02731/02732 Hyderabad-Jaipur-Hyderabad Superfast Express train to run from March 22 to June 30. The train will be taking 15-15 trips in both directions. The train will be taking halt at Itarsi and Bhopal railway station as well. From March 22 to June 28, train 02731 Hyderabad-Jaipur Superfast Express will be running on every Friday and arriving at Jaipur on Sunday. From March 24 to June 30, train 02732 Jaipur-Hyderabad Superfast express will be departing on every Sunday and arriving Hyderabad on Tuesday. The train will take halt at Secundarabad, Medhchal, Kemoreddy, Nizamabad, Dharmabad, Mudkhed, Nanded, Purna, Basmat, Hingoli, Washim, Akola, Malkapur, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Itarsi, Bhopal, Ujjain, Nagda, Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Chhitorgarh, Bhilwara, Ajmer, Kishangarh and Fulera station.