Year: 2015

South Western Railway (SWR) presiding mostly over the state of Karnataka has announced the revised timetable for its trains for 2015-16 to appear in the new Trains at a Glance for this year. All new timings and other changes will come into force on October 1 2015, or for the first…

Diwali Special trains for 2015 announced by Northern Railway and East Central Railway connecting different parts of Northern India. Special trains listed here run between Delhi and Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab and Haryana, as well as between Delhi and various cities towns in Rajasthan, UP, MP and Bihar and Jharkhand.…

For quite some time speculations had been flying around fast and thick that Indian Railways’ class of Duronto Expresses would be discontinued. This is why when Central Railway announced that Duronto Expresses owned by the zone would have commercial stoppages with effect from January 01 2016 railfans (including me) went into a tizzy, feeling sad…

Southern Railway had announced that they would run the “Premium”, now renamed Suvidha special train on the same kickass timetable of the 22657/8 Trivandrum – Bangalore City – TVC Premium that was announced in the 2014-15 railway budget to on August 30 2015 Sunday, the day when all Mallus would…

Despite its obvious advantages with regards to speed, capacity and environmental benefits, the general public seem to have many apprehensions when it comes to implementing high speed rail projects in India. Of course, there are a lot many people opposed to the entire concept, many because of misconceptions, some due…

As every year, special train services have been announced by various zones of Indian Railways on the occasion of the Onam festival of 2015 between various parts of the country and Kerala. Here are the details of those trains. Thiruvonam date for 2015 is August 28. Onam Special Trains Between Bangalore…

There are many reasons why India needs a network of very fast trains. This is not just because those gleaming, whizzing, shining marvels of technological wizardry are the most effective and efficient ways to move our large populations by cutting end-to-end travel times by as much as 80% as we…

NOTE: Given here are Diwali/Durga Puja Special Trains for the last year, 2015. To know about Diwali/Durga Puja special trains for this year 2016, CLICK HERE The Eastern zones of the Indian Railways have announced special train services for the 2015 festival and holiday seasons of Durga Puja, Diwali (Deepavali) and…

Dreaming about high speed railway in India.

NOTE: These are Ganpati Special Trains for 2015. FOR Ganpati Festival Special Trains for this year 2016 CLICK HERE Here are the special train services announced by Central Railway for the Ganapati Festival Season of Spetember 2015 in addition to regularly running services. All these trains are on the Konkan…