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In view of ongoing cash crunch, the Railway ministry has accepted a proposal to repeal service charges on train tickets booked on its portal irctc.co.in to encourage credit or debit card payments instead of cash by people. However, the facility will be in effect until the end of December 31, 2016. Now train tickets online could save general passengers Rs.40 ...

The worst train tragedy near Kanpur with the derailment of 14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express around 3:10 AM in the night killed 116 passengers and more than 200 injured, raising the need to review railway track safety all over the country. Inspector General of Kanpur, Zaki Ahmad, said, “Over 150 injured people have been rushed to nearby hospitals in ...

Effective from September 9, Friday, the Ministry of Railways has introduced the flexi fare system for Rajdhani, Duronto and Shatabdi trains with the Base Fare for all these trains to be more by 10%. The base fares will increase by 10% with every 10% of berths sold subject to a prescribed ceiling limit as indicated in the table below. There will ...

If the ongoing trial of tilted trains or light-weight trains of Spanish company Talgo is successful, it would be introduced on the stretch between Bangalore and Mysore, brining down the travel time from 3 hours to half of it at 90 minutes, said Railways minister. Union Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu on Saturday said the train clocked 180 kmph in ...

Come July 1, the second half of the calendar year 2016, Indian Railways will offer few more facilities and abort some existing facilities as part of the government move to “befriend the rich travellers” at the expense of the hapless poor and the middle class. The tatkal reservation that gets no refund of money for cancellation of tickets will now ...

Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu while presenting the Railway Budget 2016-17 in Parliament today said that Tourism holds great potential for economic development and job creation. Indian Raileays will be partnering with the State Governments for operating tourist circuit trains and explore the possibility of a revenue sharing model. Indian Railways have recently upgraded our National Rail Museum. Promotion ...

To clear the rush of passengers in view of Sankranthi, South Central Railway will run 16 Double Decker special trains between Kacheguda and Guntur via Kazipet. 1.Train No. 02122 Kacheguda – Guntur Double Decker Special Train will depart Kacheguda at 09:55 hrs o­n 16th & 18thJanuary, 2016 and arrive/depart Vijayawada at 17:10/17:20 hrs and arrive Guntur at 18:15 hrs on ...

A joint feasibility study for Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed corridor, co-financed by Indian Railways and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been completed in July 2015 and the cost of 505 km long high speed line is estimated at approximately ₹ 98,000 crore. The Government of Japan has given an assistance package proposal for Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed corridor involving technical, Operation ...

  Indian Railways have decided to rope in ISRO to overcome the increasing menace of unmanned railway crossing and increasing accidents and derailments, which can be avoided with the latest satellite surveillance technology. The Geospatial technology involves GPS (global positioning systems), GIS, and RS (remote sensing) and the trains and monitoring staff can get online all the satellite images for ...

The West-Central Railway, headquartered in Jabalpur, has become the first Railway Zone on Indian Railways to eliminate all unmanned level crossings as of 31st August, 2015. Out of total 118 unmanned level crossings falling on West-Central Railways as on 1st April, 2014, 80 were eliminated in the financial year 2014-15 and the target of 66 and the remaining 38 have ...