Someone has said that the steam locomotive is the closest to a living thing among all that Man has ever created, yet. But I take it further saying that the locomotive, steam or diesel or electric or nuclear or whatever, is the closest mankind will ever get to creating a…
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Western Railway (WR) is running Special trains to be run for the festival and holiday season of Diwali 2013 serving the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan primarily and also between Delhi and Mumbai. These special trains will run from from Indore, Mumbai Central and Bandra Terminus and Ahmedabad to various…
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These are the details of Deepawali/Durga Puja/Dussehra (Dasara) festival and holiday special trains run by Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR), Eastern Coastal Railway (ECoR) and Eastern Railway (ER), which are the eastern zones of Indian Railways. These trains do not include those which originate/depart from Kolkata. These trains run from Assam…
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South Central Railway (SCR) will run a couple of hundred trips of special services for the Pooja/Deepawali/Dasara Festival and Holiday seasons. These services will be from various railway stations in Hyderabad to Mumbai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Nagercoil and Mangalore outside AP and to almost all parts of Andhra Pradesh. These trains…
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As said in Part 1 (Recommended reading), The Island Express was only the second express train to run from South Kerala and today, a full 50 years later, remains the only daily train on the route(!), and has been reduced to running fail machine. If the Railways in the 1960s…
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If you are one of those gazillion Malayalees who head to/from the hallowed city of Bangalore (Bangloor in Malluspeak), or if you have spent considerable time commuting in the southern half of Kerala, you surely will not need an introduction to the 16525/16526 Kanniyakumari – Bangalore – Kanniyakumari Express, more…
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NOTE: Given here are Special Trains which were announced for 2013. Click Here to view Diwali Specials for this year 2017 Northern Railway (NR), North Eastern Railway (NER) and East Central Railway (ECR) are running Diwali/Chhath Puja Festival special trains between various locations in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and Delhi like Patna,…
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NOTE: This is regarding special trains for Durga Puja of last year, 2013. Click Here to know about Special Trains for Durga Puja/Diwali 2014. Eastern Railway (ER), South Eastern Railway (SER) and Southern Railway (SR), will run special trains to and from Kolkata to all parts of the country like New…
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