Month: August 2013

Southern Railway will be doing a favor to Kerala by running namesake festival/holiday special trains on the occasion of the Onam festival in September 2013 from Chennai to all destinations in Kerala and also to Nagercoil and Tirunelveli of course. SCR will run a one-trip Hyderabad – Kollam special, ECoR…

Being the lifeline of the nation and tightly integrated into its sensibilities and closely following the pulse of the nation, the state of the Indian Railways reflects the general state and mood of our country. IR started off with a bang just after independence and surged for some time riding the wave…

East Coast Railway (ECoR) headquartered at Bhubaneshwar is one of Indian Railways’ newest zones. ECoR is in charge of all of Odisha (Orissa) state and the northern districts of Andhra Pradesh. Its divisions are Bhubansheswar, Sambalpur and the famous Waltair division headquartered at Vishakhapatnam. Here are the new trains announced for…

The Konkan Railway is an epic undertaking unparalleled in the history of India, undoubtedly the most expansive and biggest infrastructure project the country has undertaken (and completed) since independence. The Konkan Railway effectively connected the western coast of India with the rest of the country, primarily Mangalore and the rest of…

These trains are for 2013. Click Here for Ganesha special trains for 2016. Central Railway and Western Railway will run Ganapati holiday festival special train services on Konkan Railway this September 2013 on the occasion of the Ganesha Chaturthi (Vinayaka Chaturthi) festival and holiday season. The services will run from…

The general history of the Indian Railways after independence might seem mostly been bland, generally indifferent and unexciting thanks to the agonizingly slow progress IR has shown. But it was not so. The Indian Railways have undertook some really groundbreaking and mammoth projects since independence, projects of sheer size and…

Central Railway (CR) is one of the most well-known zones of the Indian Railways as it handles half of the Mumbai Local Services and many famous trains out of Mumbai. It also owns the Mumbai Chhattrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Mumbai – Pune line. It is headquartered at CSTM and has…

The North Eastern Railway (NER) zone of the Indian Railways serves the states of Uttarakhand, northern Uttar Pradesh and northern Bihar and is headquartered at Gorakhpur UP. Its jurisdiction runs from Kathgodam (UK) in the North to Kanpur (UP) in the South, Mathura (UP) in the West to Chhapra (BH)…

The Indian Railways and the Republic of India were both born out of the merger and amalgamation of a number of very diverse, different and independent entities. While India was formed out of a union of hundreds of British presidencies, provinces or semi-independent or British-controlled Princely States, Indian Railways were…