presented his sixth Railway Budget with claims of a reduction in the number of train accidents, fourteen bogies of Coromandel Express derailed this evening at Jajpur railway station in which atleast 25 passengers are feared dead while over 100 are injured.The Express train was running between Howrah and Chennai. The accident occurred in the Orissa district of Jajpur.According to reports, of the fourteen...
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Pashchima Karavali RailwayYathrikara Sangha (West Coast Railway Users Association) will take a delegationto Union railway minister Mamata Banerjee this month to urge her to extend theMangalore-Yeshwantpur train up to Karwar.The association allegedthat MP Nalin Kumar Kateel misled people on the issue the related to theextension of Mangalore-Yeshwantpur Express upto Kannur in Kerala. When theextension...
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Howrah-Porbandar Super Fast Express -- via Bilaspur and Nagpur -- will henceforth ply thrice a week instead of twice, South East Central Railway sources said.The Railway Budget enshrined this change. The train will leave Porbandar on Sundays also in addition to Wednesdays and Thursdays while the return train will leave Howrah on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays....
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news.Railways Minister arrived in Parliament to present the last Railway Budget of his tenure. Though this is going to be just an interim budget, expectations are high given that this is an election year. A slash in fares is anticipated on the back of cumulative earnings of over Rs 100,000 crore in five years.Talking to presspersons early morning today, the Minister hinted at a pro-people Budget.“People...
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Ahmedabad, Oct 26 /--/ Over 2,000 km meter gauge and narrow gauge railway lines in Gujarat will be converted into broad gauge lines over the next 3-4 years, minister of state for railways K H Muniyappa said here today. On completion of work, the state will be able to boast of having the entire railway network on broad gauge lines. The minister said that 600 km lines had been converted. He said that...
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Gujarat is set to become the first state to have all of its railway tracks in broad gauge. Of almost 5,000km of railway track in the state, 3,000km track has already been converted into broad gauge. The rest 2,000km stretch of railway track will be converted into broad gauge in next three years.Announcing the development, minister of state for railways KH Muniyappa on Monday said that soon Gujarat...
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Minister of State for Railways K.H. Muniyappa on Friday asked planners to aim for two more railway terminals for Bangalore city along with the proposed terminals at Bangalore City Railway Station and Byappanahalli Railway Station.His suggestion came during a meeting of South Western Railway (SWR), State Government and Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) officials here on Friday. “Plans should...
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Speeding up of 12 express trains running to and from Kerala and regularisation of two passenger trains are the highlights of the new railway timetable that will come into effect from November 1.The introduction of the new railway timetable, which is done in July every year by the railways, was not done this year due to the Lok Sabha elections.The new timings of the mail, express and passenger trains...
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division has been subjected to step-motherly treatment under ECoR, says CPI leaderVISAKHAPATNAM: Has the long pending demand of the people, peoples representatives, political parties and voluntary organisations, trade and industry, chamber of commerce, in these parts for a separate railway zone with headquarters at Visakhapatnam or merger of this division with South Central Railway, become an election-eve...
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Indian Railways wouldconnect Bhutan with Sikkim and Bangladesh through northBengal, Railway minister Mamata Banerjee said today.One survey for the Bhutan project was complete and threeother surveys were now on for it, the minister, who will laythe foundation stone of the Rs-1,335 crore Sevoke-Rangporailway project to connect Sikkim with rest of the countrytomorrow, told newsmen here."Tomorrow, we will...
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