Category: Railways

The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express train hit a cement pillar, which some miscreants had allegedly placed on the railway track near Valsad in south Gujarat, although no passenger was injured, police officials said on Saturday. The police suspect that the incident, which took place around 7.10 pm on Friday, was an attempt to derail the Delhi-bound […]

Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday visited the site in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district where the Bikaner-Guwahati Express train had derailed on the previous day, leaving nine dead and at least 36 injured. He conducted an inspection of the tracks and the locomotive involved in the accident, a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) spokesperson said here. […]

To accelerate digitalization and provide efficient digital delivery in rural and semi-urban areas, Indian Railways’ PSU, RailTel has decided to create several “Edge Data Centres” across the country jointly with partners. This new initiative aims to give a boost Modi Government’s Digital India. Edge data centres can be referred to as small data centres situated […]

Projects of the “magnitude” like that of SilverLine “cannot be hurried” or “completed on war cries”, rather they have to be carried out in accordance with the law if they need to have any legitimacy, the Kerala High Court said to the state government on Wednesday. The remarks by Justice Devan Ramachandran came while hearing […]

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday said its construction arm has bagged a significant order from National High Speed Rail Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL). The major scope of work for the project comprises design and construction of civil and building works for a double-line high speed railway of a length of 8.198 km, L&T said in […]

Indian Railways’ upgradation in UP! Today, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav inaugurated the terminal facilities and coaching complex along with the newly constructed second entrance at North Eastern Railways’ Gomti Nagar railway station in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Apart from the terminal facilities and coaching complex, the new weekly express train between Gomtinagar and Kamakhya has been […]

Indian Railways displays noteworthy freight traffic achievements! For the first time, the Central Railway zone has crossed the milestone of 7 million tonnes freight loading in one month. In December 2021, freight loading of Central Railways was 7.21 million tonnes as against 5.87 MT in December 2020, registering a whopping increase of 22.8 per cent. […]

Revised restrictions for local train passengers: All Locals/Suburbans/EMU train services in the state of West Bengal to operate with half the capacity! As advised by the state government of West Bengal, all Indian Railways’ local trains, suburban trains and EMU train services shall operate with 50 per cent seating capacity originating from various railway stations […]

Char Dham Railway Project Update: Good news for devotees as Indian Railways’ Rishikesh to Karnaprayag rail line project in Uttarakhand gets a boost! According to the Railway Ministry, work is going on in full swing to launch the Bow String Road Bridge measuring 125 metres over Alaknanda at Sivai Kaleshwar. This bridge, the ministry said, […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the completed section of the Kanpur Metro Rail Project. The prime minister, who arrived here in the morning, inaugurated the nine-km long section from IIT Kanpur to Moti Jheel completed in a record two years time. Improving urban mobility has been one of the key focus areas of […]

Indian Railways to supply 140 Tonnes Breakdown crane to DFCCIL! A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was recently signed between the Eastern Railway zone and Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation India Limited (DFCCIL) for the supply of 140T breakdown crane. The crane will be manufactured by the Jamalpur Workshop of Eastern Railways. According to Arun Arora, General […]

With rail rakes getting diverted to serve thermal coal power plants, domestic steel companies in Odisha and Karnataka are facing outbound rail rake shortage leading to steel markets remaining unserved amid the ongoing peak season. “There is a more than 50 per cent shortage of (outbound) rail rakes for the last two months now. We […]