New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Early morning fog in Delhi led to at least 22 trains, including two Rajdhani Express, being rescheduled Sunday, a railway official said.
‘We have rescheduled trains. We have no other option. The trains reaching and leaving Delhi are being operated at a safe speed due to dense fog. This is being [...]
Beijing, Dec 27 (DPA) China launched the world’s fastest train on the weekend, running from Wuhan to Guangzhou, local media reported.
With an average speed of 350 km per hour, the train would take only 3 hours to complete the journey of 1,068.6 km, compared with the previous 10.5 hours, a Wuhan railway official told [...]
Shimla, Dec 27 (IANS) The Northern Railway has started four special trains on the world heritage Kalka-Shimla rail line in Himachal Pradesh to cater to the tourist rush during the New Year’s eve celebrations, a railway official said Sunday.
‘Four special trains have been started to cater to the tourist rush to the hill station Shimla. [...]
Nagpur, Dec 14 (IANS) The old demand for carving out a separate state of Vidarbha from Maharashtra was intensified Monday when some activists stopped the Vidarbha Express near here.
According to a Central Railway official, around 200 activists of the Youth Front halted the Mumbai-Nagpur Vidarbha Express on the outskirts of the state’s second capital Nagpur [...]
Chandigarh, Dec 3 (IANS) In a bid to meet the increasing passenger rush to Assam, the union territory has got a weekly train to Dibrugarh.
The first train was flagged off Thursday by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, who is also the MP from Chandigarh.
‘This new train will cover a distance of around 2,500 km [...]
Patna, Nov 25 (IANS) A woman who gave birth in a running train in Bihar is so inspired by the former chief minister and railway minister Lalu Prasad that she named her newborn son after the politician.
Gayatri Devi, in her mid 20s, gave birth to a boy Tuesday in Lohit Express at Desari railway [...]
Ranchi, Nov 19 (IANS) Nearly a dozen passengers were injured when six coaches of a passenger train derailed Thursday night after Maoist rebels blew up a stretch of railway track in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district, a railway official said.
According to railway sources, who asked not to be identified, the train from Jamshedpur’s Tatanagar railway station [...]
Guwahati, Nov 17 (IANS) Militants of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) blew up a petroleum-laden train in Assam. At least 20 wagons went up in flames and a loss of Rs.100 million was estimated, officials said Tuesday.
A railway spokesperson said the train with 48 wagons of high speed diesel and petrol from [...]
Jaipur, Nov 14 (IANS) Six people were killed and 19 injured when 11 coaches of a train derailed in Rajasthan early Saturday, a railway official said.
The Jodhpur-Delhi Mandore Express derailed near Bassi, more than 40 km from state capital Jaipur, at 1.30 a.m. The train had a total of 22 coaches.
The injured have been [...]
Jaipur, Nov 14 (IANS) Five people were killed and 19 injured when 11 coaches of a train derailed in Rajasthan early Saturday, a railway official said.
The Jodhpur-Delhi Mandore Express derailed near Bassi, more than 40 km from state capital Jaipur, at 1.30 a.m. The injured have been admitted in Jaipur SMS Hospital.
‘The accident occurred at [...]
Pune, Nov 11 (IANS) Eight coaches of the Mysore-Ajmer Express were derailed near Pune Wednesday evening, injuring at least five passengers, a railway official said.
The accident occurred at 7.15 p.m. near Jejuri pilgrim town on the Pune-Satara section of the Central Railway, which has a single-line operation.
According to a Central Railway spokesman, efforts are on [...]
New Delhi, Nov 11 (IANS) The railways has decided to provide bedrolls to reservation against cancellation (RAC) passengers also in AC classes.
Earlier, passengers travelling in AC classes with RAC tickets were not given bedrolls though bedroll charges were included in their fares.
Sleeper class passengers in the non-stop Duronto express will be provided bedrolls on demand, [...]
Islamabad, Nov 3 (DPA) A passenger train collided Tuesday with a freight train in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi, killing nine people and injuring 40, officials said.
The crash occurred near the Juma Goth railway station on the city’s outskirts. Negligence on the part of the driver of the Karachi-bound Allama Iqbal Express was blamed.
‘The [...]
Patna, Oct 27 (IANS) All trains from Bihar are packed with thousands of migrant workers who are returning to their places of work outside the state after celebrating the popular festival of Chhath here.
‘Railway stations are witnessing a huge rush of passengers, mostly migrant workers, who are returning to join their work outside Bihar after [...]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (IANS) In a freak accident, a bridge carrying a main water pipeline came crashing down on a moving suburban train in Mumbai, killing two people and injuring 11 others. A probe has been ordered into the accident.
The water pipeline which burst flooding the railway lines supplied drinking water to some areas of [...]
Ambala (Haryana), Oct 8 (IANS) Salt bags that fell on the railway tracks from an overturned truck held up rail traffic on the Ambala-Saharanpur section for several hours Thursday morning, railway authorities said.
The bags fell after a truck overturned early Thursday on the National Highway 1 flyover passing over the tracks. The truck broke through [...]
Kolkata, Oct 7 (IANS) A mother who gave birth on a train jumped off it as the newborn slipped through the toilet pipe and fell on the tracks in West Bengal, a railway official said Wednesday. Both the mother and baby are fine.
The incident took place between Gamaria and Birrajpur railway station near Adra in [...]
Kurukshetra (Haryana), Oct 2 (IANS) A passenger train derailed in this Haryana district Friday, disrupting rail traffic on the busy Ambala-Delhi route, officials said. No one was injured in the incident.
According to a Government Railway Police (GRP) official at Kurukshetra, the engine of the train went off the tracks after colliding with a buffalo Friday [...]
