Trains

With the Holi festival fast approaching, Indian Railways has announced several special trains to make travel easier and less stressful for passengers who are heading home or to festive destinations. As several people travel by train around this time, demand goes ...

Two more Vande Bharat sleeper train rakes are expected to be ready by next month, to launch a second sleeper service of these trains in India. Photo Credit: PTI Building of Sleeper Train Sets These new sleeper train sets are ...

India's Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) project, which will be the country's first bullet train line covering 508 km, is being built with technical and financial help from Japan. Recently, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Parliament that the ticket prices for this ...

Indian Railways has introduced an Emergency Quota for special trains such as Vande Bharat Sleeper and Amrit Bharat-II to help passengers who need to travel urgently. This decision was taken by the Railway Board and communicated to all regional railway zones ...

Indian Railways remains one of the world's biggest and most affordable public transport systems, carrying over 720 crore passengers every year, as highlighted by Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw in a Lok Sabha reply. The railways continue to grow their services, infrastructure, ...

At Chandigarh railway station, two popular trains, the Ajmer Vande Bharat Express and the Chandigarh Shatabdi Express, will now leave from platform number 6 instead of platform number 1, and this change was announced recently and started on Tuesday. Railway officials ...

The railways have started two new train services to make travel easier for people who commute daily between Patna and nearby towns. These trains run on the Patna-Buxar and Patna-Jhajha lines. The idea behind these services is similar to local trains ...

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has announced that it will run five pairs of special trains for the Holi festival to help manage the large number of passengers travelling during the holiday period. These special trains will run between February 17 ...

Indian Railways is preparing for the busy travel period around the Holi festival by planning to run a large number of special trains to handle the expected passenger rush. From March 1 to March 22, the railways will operate 1,409 special ...

Western Railway has announced that local train services between Goregaon and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) will be suspended for three months. This decision will affect a busy suburban rail corridor that currently runs 88 local trains every day and is ...

The North Central Railway has prepared a detailed plan to make travel easier and more comfortable for passengers during the Holi festival. Since Holi is one of the busiest travel periods, railways usually see a sharp rise in passenger numbers. To ...

The Indian government has announced a big plan to make 260 new Vande Bharat Sleeper trainsets to improve long-distance rail travel across the country with better comfort, safety, and modern features compared to existing trains, according to Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw ...