The Indian Railways has extended the services of several special trains so that passengers can continue to travel conveniently to various destinations in the country.
However, the national transporter has revised the timings of many of these trains as per the demand of the passengers.
Along with this, some trains have been diverted while others have had their frequency reduced.
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1. Change in timings for eight special trains by the South Western Railways
The South Western Railways (SWR) has notified about a change in timings for eight special trains under its jurisdiction. The routes covered by these special trains are namely Kacheguda-Mysore, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Coimbatore, KSR Bengaluru-Mysore and Bangalore Cantt.-Guwahati. Most of these changes have already come into effect and passengers can check the new timetables here and here.
2. East Coast Railways extends the services of four special trains with new timings
The East Coast Railways (ECR) has extended the services of the Hatia-Yesvantpur-Hatia Weekly Express Special train and the Tatanagar-Yesvantpur-Tatanagar Weekly Special trains. While earlier these trains were scheduled to run till the first week of January, the ECR has now extended their services till the last week of March 2021 on various dates.
Passengers can check the train numbers, new timetable as well as the stoppages of the four trains below:
.@RailMinIndia Services of Hatia-Yesvantpur-Hatia and Tata-Yesvantpur-Tata Special trains have been extended and will run with revised timings as per the following👇👇👇 @DRMWaltairECoR @DRMSambalpur @drmrnc @DRMCKP @serailwaykol @SWRRLY @SCRailwayIndia pic.twitter.com/o2MPr1jLFW
— East Coast Railway (@EastCoastRail) December 28, 2020
3. Diversion of four major trains due to construction work
Due to the ongoing yard remodeling work being carried out on the Rajahmundry railway station of the Vijayawada division which comes under the South Central Railways, the services of four trains between Okha-Puri and Gandhidham-Visakhapatnam have been diverted on various dates in the first week of January.
Check the train numbers and the new routes for these trains in the Tweet below:
ओखा- पुरी और गांधीधाम – विशाखापट्टनम परिवर्तित मार्ग से चलेगी
दक्षिण मध्य रेलवे के विजयवाड़ा मंडल के राजमुंदरी स्टेशन पर यार्ड मॉडलिंग कार्य के कारण ओखा – पुरी- ओखा तथा गांधीधाम – विशाखापट्टनम – गांधीधाम परिवर्तित मार्ग से चलेगी।जिसका विवरण निम्नानुसार है @WesternRly pic.twitter.com/hZ9sfa88Fa
— DRM Ahmedabad (@drmadiwr) December 21, 2020
4. Reduction in frequency of the Sampark Kranti Special train between Ahmedabad and New Delhi
The Western Railways has decided to reduce the frequency of train numbers 02917 and 02918 which operate between Ahmedabad and Hazrat Nizamuddin from tri-weekly to weekly basis from 15th January, 2021.
Train no. 02917 Ahmedabad-Hazrat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti Special, which currently operates on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday will thereafter only operate on Monday.
In the opposite direction, train no. 02918 Hazrat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti Special, which currently operates on every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will thereafter only operate on Saturday.
We advise passengers to make a note of these changes and plan their train journey accordingly!
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