Year: 2015

Most people have zero knowledge and ideas about how trains and railways work and operate and have even more so no idea what High Speed Rail (HSR) is, other than a vague notion of ultra-luxurious, smooth and gleaming futuristic-looking trains, expensive to build and maintain, traveling at high top speeds…

Here are listed the major special train services being run during the winter holiday vacation season for Christmas, New Year, Pongal etc in the months of December 2015 and January 2016 across all zones of the Indian Railways. Most of these trains are continuations of run of Deepawali/Puja festival specials. All…

The Nagpur Diamond Crossing junction is not at the mid point of India but only a crossing between the main line and a yard line.

The Sabarimala pilgrimage season is the annual Hindu pilgrimage to the shrine of Lord Ayyappa in Sabarimala in the Pathanamthitta district of Kerala, falling in the months of November, December and January every year. Like every year, South Central Railway (SCR) runs 132 Sabarimala special trains from various parts of…

This chapter attempts to answer the question of why we shouldn't upgrade the Indian Railway network instead of building high speed rail.

South Eastern Railway and Eastern Railway have announced changes in timings of their timetables for the year 2015-16. This year these changes will majorly include “real” changes like change in timings of trains, rather than the list of new trains being introduced, extended and so on as it was done…

Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is the exclusive Indian Railways zone serving the North Eastern part of the country, everything east of Malda and Katihar. NFR has released changes that will reflect in their timetable for 2015-16. Since there are no new trains, no new extensions, frequency increase etc, timetables appear rather…

Central Railway (CR) zone, in charge of much of the state of Maharashtra and also operator of the Central suburban line for Mumbai has announced the changes that would reflect in its new railway timetable which came into effect from October 01 2015. Unlike the years before, there are no new…

Western and Central Railway zones of the Indian Railway have announced various special train services to be run on the festival holiday season of Navaratri, Puja and Diwali (Deepawali) on the months of October and November 2016. These include trains from Mumbai and Pune to Delhi, UP/Bihar, MP and Rajasthan, as…

Western Railway has released their new railway timetable for the year 2015-16 to be in effect from October 01 2015, and in a huge surprise, almost all of their trains have been speeded up dramatically, from 10 minutes to 150 minutes, 13 trains among them having shaved off more than an…