Railways to run 3 more pairs of special trains

Kumod Verma / TNN / Updated: Apr 22, 2021, 12:32 IST

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The railways will run three more special passenger trains on the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Raxaul, Rajkot-Samastipur and Ahmedabad-Danapur routes to cope with huge rush of passengers. Several pairs of special passenger trains are already running from Maharashtra and Gujrat to facilitate stranded passengers reach their native places in Bihar.

Railways to run 3 more pairs of special trains

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PATNA: The railways will run three more special passenger trains on the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Raxaul, Rajkot-Samastipur and Ahmedabad-Danapur routes to cope with huge rush of passengers. Several pairs of special passenger trains are already running from Maharashtra and Gujrat to facilitate stranded passengers reach their native places in Bihar.
According to ECR chief public relations officer (CPRO) Rajesh Kumar, railways is running a special passenger train (01321/01322) between Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Mumbai and Raxaul.

“The train left Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Mumbai on Wednesday (April 21) at 9.15pm and will reach Raxaul on Friday at 11.45pm. On its return journey, it will leave Raxaul on April 24 at 2pm and reach Mumbai on April 26 at 5pm,” the CPRO said.
The special train is running via Narkatiaganj-Gorakhpur-Basti-Gonda-Kanpur Central-Tundla-Agra Fort-Sawai Madhopur-Kota-Ratlam-Vadodra-Surat-Bhiwandi-Thane route with a load combination of 21 coaches, including 19 sleeper and two brake vans.
Similarly, another special passenger train (09521/09522) is running between Rajkot and Samastipur from April 21.

“It left Rajkot on Wednesday at 11am and will reach Samastipur on Friday at 6am. On its return journey, it will leave Samastipur on April 24 at 6.20am and reach Rajkot on April 26 at 3.05am,” Kumar said, adding that the train is running via Ahmedabad-Godhra-Ratlam-Mathura-Kanpur Central-Gorakhpur-Siwan-Chhapra-Hajipur-Muzaffarpur route with a load combination of 23 coaches.
Likewise, the railways will run a special passenger train (09467/09468) between Ahmedabad and Danapur to bring back stranded passengers from Gujrat. The train will leave Ahmedabad on April 25 at 11.15pm and reach Danapur on April 27 at 10.50am. On its return journey, it will leave Danapur on April 27 at 1.50pm and reach Ahmedabad on April 29 at 2.30am.

“The train will run via Ara-Buxar-Pt Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction-Varanasi-Sultanpur-Lucknow-Kanpur Central-Farukabad-Mathura-Sawai Madhopur-Kota-Ratlam-Godhra route with a load combination of 22 coaches, including 10 3AC, 10 sleeper coaches and two brake vans,” the CPRO said.
According to sources railways is running more than 30 pairs of regular and weekly special passenger trains from Maharashtra.

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