Railways Restarts Trains

Sathish Kumar, a senior assistant loco pilot, put his life at stake to reset the alarm chain of an Express train, which had halted on a river bridge.

A Rajdhani special train will run on four days of the week between Mumbai and Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin, the Central Railway (CR) said in a release on Wednesday.

Farmer groups that have been blocking railway tracks at 21 locations in Punjab have withdrawn from the sites to allow freight trains to move, the state government said today. But the trains are not likely to run as the railways want to restart both goods and passenger trains and other services together and not selectively. Some farmers are still ga...

Tweeting a copy of a letter from the Railway Board ordering the start of three new trains from Odisha's Puri to destinations across Gujarat, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Piyush Goyal for accepting his request demanding special trains from his home state so migrant workers could "safel...

Within days of a road accident that killed seven migrant workers travelling from Odisha's Ganjam to cloth mills in Gujarat, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged Railways Minister Piyush Goyal urging him to restart Special Shramik trains from his home state so people can "safely return to work" and "help restart the economy".

More than 1.45 lakh passengers are expected to travel on the first day as Railways re-starts 200 trains today amid coronavirus lockdown, which has been extended till June 30.

The number of passenger trains running in the country will increase from the existing 15 to over 200 starting June 1, as the Railways slowly scales up operations amid a coronavirus lockdown that has been extended to June 30

When train services restart today for limited operations, passengers have to be at the station 90 minutes in advance and entry will be stopped 15 minutes before the trains leave. The passengers will be screened before they enter the station and only those who are asymptomatic will be allowed to board, according to SOPs put out by the home ministry ...

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 4,213 new patients in the last 24 hours, which takes the total to 67,152 cases so far, Union Health Ministry said this morning. The total number of deaths in India linked to one of the most contagious illnesses the world has seen in the recent decades has soared to 2...

The railways on Sunday said it will "gradually" restart operations from Tuesday as the country eases the coronavirus lockdown. A total of 30 train journeys - 15 pairs of return trips - will run from New Delhi railway station to other cities including Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.

Passenger trains will restart from Tuesday, from a few cities, days before the coronavirus lockdown is due to end. Only 15 special trains (30 return journeys) will operate to begin with. Trains were stopped when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown on March 25.

One of the world's largest train networks will "gradually" restart operations from Tuesday as the country eases its coronavirus lockdown, as the number of cases cross 60,000 with more than 2,000 deaths.

Indian Railways plans to restart passenger trains in a phased manner from Tuesday, five days before the end of the national lockdown to break the coronavirus chain of transmission, according to a statement released on Sunday.

Four special trains for migrants will be rolled from Karnataka this evening, two days after the state's decision to stop the Railway's "Shramik" service - launched last week for labourers amid coronavirus lockdown - sparked criticism. The decision was rolled back yesterday.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railways (DHR) for the first time has started evening toy train services for enabling tourists to experience the joy ride during the second half of the day, the officials said.

Sathish Kumar, a senior assistant loco pilot, put his life at stake to reset the alarm chain of an Express train, which had halted on a river bridge.

A Rajdhani special train will run on four days of the week between Mumbai and Delhi's Hazrat Nizamuddin, the Central Railway (CR) said in a release on Wednesday.

Farmer groups that have been blocking railway tracks at 21 locations in Punjab have withdrawn from the sites to allow freight trains to move, the state government said today. But the trains are not likely to run as the railways want to restart both goods and passenger trains and other services together and not selectively. Some farmers are still ga...

Tweeting a copy of a letter from the Railway Board ordering the start of three new trains from Odisha's Puri to destinations across Gujarat, Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister Piyush Goyal for accepting his request demanding special trains from his home state so migrant workers could "safel...

Within days of a road accident that killed seven migrant workers travelling from Odisha's Ganjam to cloth mills in Gujarat, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has urged Railways Minister Piyush Goyal urging him to restart Special Shramik trains from his home state so people can "safely return to work" and "help restart the economy".

More than 1.45 lakh passengers are expected to travel on the first day as Railways re-starts 200 trains today amid coronavirus lockdown, which has been extended till June 30.

The number of passenger trains running in the country will increase from the existing 15 to over 200 starting June 1, as the Railways slowly scales up operations amid a coronavirus lockdown that has been extended to June 30

When train services restart today for limited operations, passengers have to be at the station 90 minutes in advance and entry will be stopped 15 minutes before the trains leave. The passengers will be screened before they enter the station and only those who are asymptomatic will be allowed to board, according to SOPs put out by the home ministry ...

India recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus cases with 4,213 new patients in the last 24 hours, which takes the total to 67,152 cases so far, Union Health Ministry said this morning. The total number of deaths in India linked to one of the most contagious illnesses the world has seen in the recent decades has soared to 2...

The railways on Sunday said it will "gradually" restart operations from Tuesday as the country eases the coronavirus lockdown. A total of 30 train journeys - 15 pairs of return trips - will run from New Delhi railway station to other cities including Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai.

Passenger trains will restart from Tuesday, from a few cities, days before the coronavirus lockdown is due to end. Only 15 special trains (30 return journeys) will operate to begin with. Trains were stopped when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the lockdown on March 25.

One of the world's largest train networks will "gradually" restart operations from Tuesday as the country eases its coronavirus lockdown, as the number of cases cross 60,000 with more than 2,000 deaths.

Indian Railways plans to restart passenger trains in a phased manner from Tuesday, five days before the end of the national lockdown to break the coronavirus chain of transmission, according to a statement released on Sunday.

Four special trains for migrants will be rolled from Karnataka this evening, two days after the state's decision to stop the Railway's "Shramik" service - launched last week for labourers amid coronavirus lockdown - sparked criticism. The decision was rolled back yesterday.

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railways (DHR) for the first time has started evening toy train services for enabling tourists to experience the joy ride during the second half of the day, the officials said.