Month: February 2015

Indian Railways’ special trains for the summer holidays season of 2015, spanning the months of April, May and June have been announced. The Summer holidays is when the most number of special trains are run in India, requiring their own timetable calendar! Here are given the summer special trains running…

Special train services to be run on the Indian Railways network for the month of March 2015 on the occasion of the festival of Holi and for the start of the summer vacation season have been announced. Most trains are run by Northern Railway NR connecting Delhi/Punjab with various parts…

After Indian Railways switched over to 25kV alternating current traction all over its network rendering DC traction and DC (and AC/DC) locomotives obsolete, AC electric locomotives are currently the reigning superstars of Indian Railways. They are the fastest and most powerful among all locomotives in India, hauling most of IR’s…