Year: 2013

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…

New trains announced in the Indian Railways timetable Trains at a Glance 2013-14 for Northern Railway. Date of introduction for all these trains except one will be announced later. This data should not be considered official information, please always check with official sources. AC Express Trains (Fully Air Conditioned) of…

The history of the railways in India in the early 20th century and their conditions at the time of independence in 1947

South Central Railway (SCR) zone headquartered at Secunderabad and mainly caters to lines in the state of Andhra Pradesh and some parts of Maharashtra and Karnataka has announced its railway timetable changes that will come into force in the zone from July 01 2013. Introduction dates of all new trains…

Eastern Railway is one of the original Indian Railway zones established in 1952 and took care of the entire eastern part of the country from its headquarters at Howrah in Kolkata. And here are the major features of the new time table of the Eastern Railway which came into effect…

The state of Kerala occupies a significant position on the Indian Railway map with 1050 route kilometers and 1588 km of total track. The Thiruvananthapuram and Palakkad divisions of the Southern Railway zone make up the administrative divisions of the state for the railways. Palakkad division operates 76 express and…