Month: June 2013

New trains presented in the 2013-14 Trains at a Glance (TAAG) timetable for Indian Railways, specifically for Southern Railway. This is excluding the trains which have already started running. New AC Superfast Expresses for Southern Railway 22631/22632 Chennai Central – Bikaner – Chennai Central Weekly AC Superfast Express (SR) Route:…

Southern Railway (SR) has published the salient features of its timetable for 2013-14 to be included in the Trains at a Glance (TAAG) 2013. This is only about changes for existing trains, click here for details of new trains announced. Most changes are already in effect. Please confirm all these with official…

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) zone has announced the details of new trains to be introduced in the year 2013-14 which will be included in the new time table which comes into effect from July 01 2013. Dates of introduction of all these trains will be notified later. These trains and…

NOTE CLICK HERE for details of new trains announced in the latest 2014-15 Rail Budget by Sri Sadananda Gowda of the BJP govt on July 8 2014 Click Here for New Trains, Projects etc announced in (interim) Railway Budget 2014-15 The Honorable Railway Minister Mr.Pawan Kumar Bansal presented the Indian Railway Budget for the financial year…

(Reposted from another blog of mine which was closed) March 13 2013: Honorable Railway Minister Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal has announced additional trains and services in his reply speech to the discussion pertaining to the Indian Railway Budget 2013-14 in the Loksabha. He has announced 19 new trains including 16…

IRCTC has finally launched a website designed for mobile phones where people can book railway tickets (yes, including Tatkal tickets)  for Indian Railways‘ trains from their internet-connected mobile phones, using a browser. IRCTC’s website had forever changed the way Indians book railway tickets (for a sample, it handled 11.7 million (1.17 crore) transactions…

Konkan Railway (KR) changes the timing of trains running though the Konkan Railway every year from Jun 10 to October 31. This is called the “Monsoon Timetable which was introduced because the monsoons with heavy rains is often followed by flash floods, landslides, tree uprooting etc on the highly volatile…

Southern Railways have announced Summer Special trains which will run during the months of April, May and June 2013, connecting Chennai with Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulam, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Goa (Madgaon), Bangalore, Hubli, Rameshwaram, Tuticorin, Tirunelveli, Nagercoil and also Bangalore with Ernakulam. Details are as below 06011/06012 Chennai Central – Kochuveli (Trivandrum) –…

[UPDATE: Unfortunately, Inexplicably, Sadly, they have shelved this awesomeness of Railyatri Railradar Maps and replaced it with a bland, utilitarian and boring interface with no map. This is so sad. I wonder what made them do this. Railradar was the best thing that had ever happened to Indian Railways on…