{"id":450124,"date":"2021-11-16T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=450124"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T08:34:53","slug":"railway-board-issues-order-to-drop-special-train-tag-revert-to-pre-covid-fares-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railway-board-issues-order-to-drop-special-train-tag-revert-to-pre-covid-fares-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Railway Board issues order to drop &#8216;special train&#8217; tag, revert to pre-Covid fares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from passengers over hike in fares, the Railways on Friday issued an order to discontinue the &#8216;special&#8217; tag for mail and express trains and revert to pre-pandemic ticket prices with immediate effect. Since the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was eased, the Railways has been running only special trains. It started with long-distance trains and now, even short-distance passenger services are being run as special trains with &#8220;slightly higher fares&#8221; to &#8220;discourage people from avoidable travels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to zonal railways on Friday, the Railway Board said trains will now be operated with their regular numbers and fares will revert to normal pre-Covid prices.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket prices of special trains and holiday special trains are marginally higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under pressure from passengers over hike in fares, the Railways on Friday issued an order to discontinue the &#8216;special&#8217; tag for mail and express trains and revert to pre-pandemic ticket prices with immediate effect. Since the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was eased, the Railways has been running only special trains. It started with long-distance trains and now, even short-distance passenger services are being run as special trains with &#8220;slightly higher fares&#8221; to &#8220;discourage people from avoidable travels&#8221;. In a letter to zonal railways on Friday, the Railway Board said trains will now be operated with their regular numbers and fares will revert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,258,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450124","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}