Northern Railway has announced introduction of six more pairs of special trains to cope with spurt in passenger traffic in the ensuing festival season. These trains would provide connectivity to passengers from Jammu Tawi, Amritsar and Ludhiana to various destinations in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, including Gorakhpur, Barauni, Patna, Bandra Terminus (Mumbai) and the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir.
The 1655/56 Gorakhpur-Chandigarh-Gorakhpur Festival Special Weekly Express train will leave Gorakhpur on every Friday from October 21 to November 11 at 10.10 pm and reach Chandigarh at 2.10 pm the next day. On return journey, train 01656 will leave Chandigarh on every Thursday from October 20 to November 10 at 11.35 pm and reach at 5.35 pm the next day.
