Category: Railways

Suburban train services were affected in the Sealdah-Naihati and Naihati-Bandel sections of the Eastern Railway on Monday morning due to technical problems in the signaling system. Eastern Railway spokesperson Kaushik Mitra said that the technical glitches in the signaling system were noticed at Naihati in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district around 6 am and […]

The Howrah-Puri Vande Bharat Express was cancelled on Monday as the rake will undergo urgent repairs for damages caused by tree branches falling on the running train during a storm on the previous day, officials said. The new ICF rake suffered dents on the facia, damage to a pantograph and cracks in the windshield during […]

A Vande Bharat Express between Howrah and Puri will have its inaugural run from Puri on Thursday, said an official of South Eastern Railway. The regular run of the train, the second Vande Bharat connected to Howrah, will start on May 25. The train will run six days a week, except Thursdays, said officials. The […]

Hundreds of passengers had a close shave as a local train derailed after being hit by a goods train in West Bengal’s Purba Bardhaman district, officials said on Thursday. The accident happened at 9.16 pm on Wednesday near Saktigarh station on Eastern Railway’s Howrah-Bardhaman line, they said. There was no casualty in the accident, which […]

Unidentified miscreants allegedly targeted the recently launched Kasaragod-Thiruvananthapuram Vande Bharat Express train on Monday, police said. The incident came to light when railway officials noticed a scratch, allegedly due to the stone pelting, on one of its windowpanes when the train was passing through Valapattanam area in the district in north Kerala, police said. The […]

The Odisha government has urged the Centre to run more Vande Bharat Express trains through the state. The demand was raised on a day when the new Vande Bharat Express had its trial run between Howrah and Puri on Friday. The state sought the introduction of the Vande Bharat Express trains on Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Puri-Rourkela, and […]

Amidst the successful trial run of the Vande Bharat express train on the Howrah-Puri route on Friday, the Odisha government demanded the introduction of more semi-high speed trains on Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Puri-Raipur and Puri-Howrah routes. A Railway official said the trial run of the train commenced from Howrah station in West Bengal at 6.10 am and […]

Amid the successful trial run of the Vande Bharat express train on the Howrah-Puri route on Friday, the Odisha government demanded the introduction of more semi-high speed trains on Bhubaneswar-Hyderabad, Puri-Raipur and Puri-Howrah routes. A Railway official said the trial run of the train commenced from Howrah station in West Bengal at 6.10 am and […]

Kerala government’s ambitious Kochi Water Metro service, a first in the country and launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day ago, commenced its commercial operations on Wednesday. The flagship project of the Left front government, set up at a cost of Rs 1,136.83 crore in the port city, will connect 10 islands using 78 […]

Farmers in Punjab squatted on railway tracks at many places in the state as part of their four-hour ‘rail roko’ agitation against the value cut announced by the Centre on shrivelled and broken wheat grains due to untimely rains. The protest impacted the movement of many trains and caused inconvenience to passengers. Several farmer bodies […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching Rajasthan’s first Vande Bharat Express via a videoconference on Wednesday at 11 am, which will run on the Ajmer-Delhi Cantonment route. According to a press release by the prime minister’s office (PMO), the train will arrive an hour earlier than the current fastest train on the route. The […]

Railway Board Chairman and CEO Anil Kumar Lahoti on Sunday inspected the working of ‘Kavach’, an indigenous automatic train protection system developed by Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO). The South Central Railways has been closely associated with its development since inception, facilitating its trials, and also deploying Kavach extensively over its rail network. Lahoti […]