Year: 2014

NOTE These are Durga Puja/Diwali Specials for 2014. CLICK HERE to view Durga Puja/Diwali special trains for 2016. Like every year, a slew of special trains are being announced by various Indian Railways zones this year in 2014 to clear extra rush of passengers on the occasion of the country’s biggest festival season, Durga…

Various zones of the Indian Railways will run the following Special trains in the month of August 2014. Most of these trains are trial runs of new trains announced in the previous three budgets which will be introduced as regular trains in the new all-India Timetable from September 01 2014.…

Southern Railway’s Salem – Erode section, part of the Jolarpettai – Coimbatore mainline is a relatively straight line resting on particularly solid terrain and is one of South India’s “highest speed” stretches. It was built by the British Great Southern of India Railway company (GSIR) in 1861 and has since…

NOTE: These are Ganpati Special Trains for 2015. FOR Ganpati Festival Special Trains for this year 2016 CLICK HERE PLEASE NOTE: Due to a derailment accident, all trains on the Konkan Railway Route are running late by many hours and many trains are being diverted. Please confirm current running status…

Hon. Railway Minister Shri DV Sadananda Gowda has presented his maiden Railway Budget in the Loksabha on the 8th of June 2014. For the first time in many years the budget has some radically different suggestions though these have been in the pipeline for a long time. The focus of…

Indian Railways trains seem to be slow not because their absolute (top) speeds are low but because of inadequate infrastructure to run trains.

Train travel in India just got costlier. The Indian Railways have announced a hike (increase) in all passenger ticket prices and freight charges of all services in all classes on all trains running on its network, to be implemented with effect from Wednesday, June 25 2014. The increase in fares is quite…

Details of the Summer Holiday Specials run by North Western Railway (NWR) zone of Indian Railways headquartered at Jaipur in Rajasthan. These trains will run for all of April, May and June 2014. These trains are primarily through Rajasthan and Punjab. Major routes are between Delhi and Rajasthan and towards…

What the high tech wonders that are high speed railways or bullet trains can be beneficial in the indian context

UPDATE: Removal of all temporary stoppages have been put on hold. A good example that shows how Kerala and its hallowed population of Malayalees are dedicated to the ideals of socialism is its trains. Outside Kerala you might be a big-ass Rajdhani, a fast intercity or overnight express, an ultra-prestigious superfast sharing the name with…