Category: Railways

Train services were partially affected through Aluva route on Friday after a goods train derailed at Aluva station near here resulting in cancellation of at least 10 trains. Senior railway officials rushed to the spot to oversee the traffic restoration process at Aluva. Railway sources said the 42-wagon train which originated from Yerraguntla station in […]

The Faridabad Municipal Corporation has issued a notice to the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and asked it to submit a reply on the issue of regularisation of water and sewerage connections and the recovery of civic charges, within a week. The water and sewerage connections to nine stations of the Metro rail in the […]

AC-3 tier, the favourite mode of train travel of people falling in the bottom rung of the middle class, is the only class that earns the Railways profit among all its passenger services. AC-3 tier comprises air-conditioned coaches with 64 sleeping berths. “All classes of train services have incurred losses during 2019-20, except AC-3 tier […]

A railway engineer in Bihar has been suspended and booked for trying to illegally sell off a vintage steam engine as “scrap”, a senior official said here on Tuesday. According to Alok Agrawal, DRM of Samastipur Division under East Central Railway, an FIR was registered on the previous day against seven persons, including the engineer […]

The Railway Board has decided to disband all six units of the Railway Engineers Regiments (Territorial Army), in a letter undersigned by RK Sinha, Director Establishment, Railway Board, of the Indian Railways. The board, as stated in the letter issued today, has concurred for extension of validity of existing FE (Functional Establishment) with 50 per […]

Around 55 trains were adversely affected following the protest by the farmers belonging to Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) at Ferozepur, Tarn Taran, Amritsar and Hoshiarpur. As many as 27 trains were cancelled, 11 short-terminated and 17 halted due to the agitation. Trains which were cancelled included Amritsar-Jayanagar Saryu Yamuna Express, Amritsar-Howrah Covid-19 Special, Amritsar-Nanded […]

The “rail roko” agitation in Amritsar by the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) has affected the movement of trains plying over the City Beautiful and the holy city, resulting in the cancellation of the Sachkhand Express, Paschim Express, Chandigarh-Amritsar Express and SAS Nagar- Ferozepur Cantt Express. Farmers and farm activists are agitating at Devidaspura in […]

Bathinda railway station has bagged safety award for zero tolerance in maintaining safety in train operations and team operations for the years 2019-20 and 2020-21. The award was given to Bathinda Station Superintendent Pardeep Sharma by Ambala Divisional Railway Manager (DRM) Gurvinder Mohan Singh, ADRM Infra Karan Singh and Sr Divisional Safety Officer Anil Sharma […]

Thousands of passengers were inconvenienced as large number of trains were cancelled and short-terminated due to the rail blockade here on Monday. Passengers reaching the Amritsar Railway station were shocked to find the train services stalled. As a result, they flocked the enquiry window for trains update but the staff was unable to give any […]

As the ongoing construction work of a railway overbridge and two railway under bridges (ROB and RUB 1 & RUB 2) project on Pakhowal Road is still incomplete, the public has been left to face inconvenience while the Municipal Corporation (MC) and the railway authorities are blaming each other for the delay in completion of […]

India on Friday handed over the 34.9-km-long cross-border rail link connecting Jaynagar in Bihar to Kurtha in Nepal to the Nepalese government, a move that is expected to enhance trade and commerce as well as people-to-people linkages between the two countries. The Jaynagar-Kurtha section is part of the 68.7-km Jaynagar-Bijalpura-Bardidas rail link built under the […]

Finally, the Union Government has accorded approval to acquire forest land falling under the much-awaited project to double the Ludhiana-Mullanpur railway line, the government has confirmed. The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has granted in-principle approval for the diversion of 28.092 hectares of forest land to be acquired under the project. The […]