{"id":448588,"date":"2021-11-09T10:39:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=448588"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:50:41","slug":"railway-board-chief-discusses-more-ac-rakes-cheaper-fares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-board-chief-discusses-more-ac-rakes-cheaper-fares\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway board chief discusses more AC rakes, cheaper fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Making AC train fares affordable and deploying more AC rakes on Western Railway were some of the issues discussed at a review meeting chaired by Railway Board chairman and CEO Suneet Sharma on Sunday. Sharma launched the first Unified Command and Control Centre on WR too.<br \/>\nHe travelled in a second class compartment of a suburban local from Churchgate to Mumbai Central station. \u201cHe interacted with passengers and listened to their views\/feedback, which was positive,\u201d said WR general manager Alok Kansal.<br \/>\nSenior WR officials made suggestions regarding trials for new AC trains and sought more AC coaches\/rakes apart from rationalisation of fare structure. WR has been operating eight AC services and started 12 more services lately, making it 20 services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Making AC train fares affordable and deploying more AC rakes on Western Railway were some of the issues discussed at a review meeting chaired by Railway Board chairman and CEO Suneet Sharma on Sunday. Sharma launched the first Unified Command and Control Centre on WR too. He travelled in a second class compartment of a suburban local from Churchgate to Mumbai Central station. \u201cHe interacted with passengers and listened to their views\/feedback, which was positive,\u201d said WR general manager Alok Kansal. Senior WR officials made suggestions regarding trials for new AC trains and sought more AC coaches\/rakes apart from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,260,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}