AHMEDABAD: Western Railway will introduce a new weekly train between Bhavnagar and Haridwar starting September 11. It’s inaugural run will be held on September 4. The train will not arrive at Ahmedabad, but will be diverted from Viramgam towards Mehsana and also not pass through Delhi. Bookings for the inaugural run will open on September […]
Category: Railways
Bird’s nest disrupts metro service
Chennai: A bird’s nest that fell on the overhead power cable disrupted metro train services after the line snapped. This forced many office-goers to wait longer than usual for trains or look for alternate transport to their workplace. Officials said the fault was identified in the overhead equipment (OHE) in Guindy metro station at 8am […]
Track work for Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor begins
AHMEDABAD: The construction work of first reinforced concrete (RC) track bed for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor track system as used in Japanese Shinkansen, began in Surat. This is for the first time, the J-slab ballastless track system is being used in India. The track system comprises of a pre-cast track slab over which […]
CMRL submits feasibility report on mass rapid transit networks in Trichy, Salem and Tirunelveli
CHENNAI: Chennai Metro Rail Ltd has prepared a detailed feasibility report on building appropriate mass rapid transit system lines in Tirunelveli, Trichy and Salem. The report was submitted to the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday. The report envisages appropriate two-corridor mass rapid transit system network for 45km in Trichy, a three-corridor network of 39.07km in […]
Rail passengers dismayed by unhygienic conditions: Food trays stored near loos
CHENNAI: Passengers with berths on the last coupe of a sleeper coach on an express train to Chennai were irked to see that caterers had locked one door and had piled crates of food, water bottles, packets of paper cups in the doorway near the toilets. The tea vending drums were on the vestibule. Food […]
Kolkata’s East-West Metro: Emergency exit shaft pillars in cave-in zone ready
KOLKATA: The key construction work at Nirmal Chunder Street may have been deferred, but KMRC is steadily getting on with the other crucial job in the troubled 2.5km Esplanade-Sealdah stretch of East-West Metro. It has just completed piling work for the emergency exit shaft at Durga Pituri Lane, the nucleus of the largescale subsidence of […]
Metro rail blasting work rains stones on cars, window at Mantralaya in south Mumbai
MUMBAI: Stones hit a window of Mantralaya (Maharashtra state secretariat) in south Mumbai and a few vehicles parked on the premises of the sprawling complex on Thursday due to some blasting work in connection with the underground Metro Line 3, an official said. A blast, possibly part of tunnelling work, resulted in stones hitting parked […]
Mumbai: Local Train jumps signal at CSMT, disrupts Central Railway services
MUMBAI: In major safety lapse, a local train jumped the red signal before it was scheduled to enter CSMT’s platform number 3, which was already occupied by another train waiting to depart in the Down direction, and came to halt because of the Auxiliary Warning System (AWS) around 3.20pm on Thursday. The Signal Passing at […]
South East Central Railway implements automatic signaling system to streamline rail traffic, enhance efficiency
RAIPUR: The South East Central Railway (SECR) has ushered in a new chapter in train operation with the implementation of an automatic signaling system along a 362-kilometer stretch connecting key destinations from Bilaspur to Dadhapara, Bilha, Gatoura, Jayram Nagar, Uslapur, Ghutku, Champa to Korba, and Nagpur to Bhilai. This cutting-edge technology enables the simultaneous operation […]
Railway board gets its first woman chief after 118 years
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways got its first-ever woman chairperson of the railway board (CRB) and CEO with the appointment of Jaya Verma Sinha to the post on Thursday. She will take charge on Friday and will serve as the CRB till August 31, 2024. Sinha, a career railway officer, is slated to retire on October […]
TN sends plan to rly board to revamp MRTS stations
CHENNAI: The unwieldy and desolate MRTS stations may finally get to be people-friendly, as the Tamil Nadu government has approved a draft memorandum of understanding to take over and maintain stations and platforms of MRTS stations in the city. The state government will take over the Beach-Velachery MRTS route with 18 stations from the railways […]
CMRL completes feasibility study for Salem metro rail
Salem: The Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has completed its feasibility survey for Salem’s rapid transit system (metro rail project), proposing to implement the project on two routes, covering 40 kilometres. The detailed feasibility report (DFR) will be submitted to the state government soon, the officials said. Following the Union government’s announcement on metro rail […]