Year: 2013

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…