The Western Railway is operating additional shifts to manage bookings, while additional personnel have been deployed at railway stations at Surat and Udhna to manage the crowd in view of Holi festival.
The railway stations have been recording huge number of passengers with workers from the textile industry going to their native states such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar for the festival.
According to railway station sources, on Sunday, people started crowding Udhna railway station at 4 am to take Antyoday express train from Udhna to Jaynagar in Bihar. While the train has a capacity of around 1,800, over 5,000 people were seen at the railway station.
