Category: Railways

NEW DELHI: Project Investment Board of the Centre has approved three lines of Delhi Metro phase IV measuring over 40 Kms. The total cost is expected to be around Rs 12,586 crore. A senior official said the board under the Ministry of Finance approved the remaining three lines — Rithala-Bawana-Narela (22.91 km), Lajpat Nagar-Saket G-Block […]

BENGALURU: To tend to the medical needs of a five-year-old girl who was to travel by the Duronto Express (Yeshwanthpur to Howrah), the start of the train was delayed by 27 minutes at Yeshwanthpur railway station on Sunday morning. Delaying a train for an individual is a rare occurrence and a display of laudable humanitarianism […]

NEW DELHI: The IRCTC on Sunday said that the newly set up state-of-art executive lounge at Varanasi railway station is ready to serve the travellers. The facility is designed to make ‘waiting’ comfortable before departures and after arrival at the station.

HYDERABAD: Delivering farm produce with much ease, 63 kisan rails from Telangana were able to transporting different varieties of vegetables and fruits, especially to different destinations located in farther States of the country. According to the SCR (South Central Railway), Telangana’s first Kisan Rail commenced on February 8 from Warangal station. While it has successfully […]

BENGALURU: A mechanical failure occurred nearly 50-feet above the ground at BTM Layout on Sunday morning when the support leg of a 260-tonne launching girder deployed for constructing the Double Decker flyover of Bengaluru Metro’s RV Road-Bommasandra Line slipped and got distorted. There were no casualties or injuries as the operation was carried out by […]

GUWAHATI: A parcel train, propelled by an electric locomotive, chugged into Kamakhya railway station in Guwahati on Thursday, thereby taking Assam to the country’s electric train map. New Coochbehar in West Bengal used to be the last destination for trains with electric locomotives. From there, diesel locomotives were attached for onward journey to Assam and […]

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Centre has informed the state of its inability to bear the liability of the loans to be availed from international agencies for the ambitious semi high-speed rail project — SilverLine — that would enable travel from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod in four hours. Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw conveyed this to Chief Minister Pinarayi […]

CHENNAI: About 11 km of the newly laid third line between Tambaram and Guduvancheri was inspected by the Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) on Thursday. The team also conducted a high-speed trail in the reverse direction, for which an empty rake was operated at a speed of 130 km/ph. The track was is part of […]

KOCHI: Kochi Metro commuters’ worry over the Kochi 1 card will be resolved soon. Following reports that the demand placed by KMRL and AXIS bank to renew Know Your Customer (KYC) details of the card annually through an online platform was troubling commuters, City Express had published an article on the issue on October 20.

BENGALURU: An online campaign to run suburban rail services on the existing rail infrastructure in the City was launched on Thursday on a popular petition website–change.org. By 9 pm, it had garnered 2,266 signatures. ‘Bengaluru Agenda for Mobility’– a citizens campaign for sustainable, multi-modal, and integrated mobility in Bengaluru, urged netizens to get on to […]

NEW DELHI: A group of officials and staff of the soon-to-open Dhaka Metro, are undergoing training at a Delhi Metro academy here, the DMRC said on Tuesday. The training of the first batch of core staff and officers, comprising 19 from operations department and 17 from rolling stock section, by DMRC officials started at the […]

KOCHI: At a time when Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) is looking to actively revive itself from the setbacks brought in by the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, the agency’s ‘Kochi 1 card’ has been giving travellers a hard time. While commuters are looking for easier ways to recharge their cards, the officials demand they must […]