Indian Railways is running 28 Festival Special Trains to cater to the increased demand for travel to Northern India during Diwali and Chhath festivals. These special trains will operate on various routes from LTT Mumbai to destinations like Banaras, Danapur, Samastipur, Prayagraj, and Gorakhpur. The special trains have different compositions,...
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including AC-III Tier, Sleeper Class, and Second Class coaches. Reservations for these special trains will open on September 5th, 2024, at all computerized reservation centers and on the IRCTC website.

A safety seminar was organized at the Diesel Loco Shed Patratu on Friday. The seminar was attended by Senior Divisional Mechanical Engineer Omkar Sharan Singh, Branch Secretary of the East Central Railway Employees Union Patratu II Ajit Kumar, all employees, supervisors, section in-charges, and railway personnel. The seminar focused on safety...
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procedures, particularly fire safety. A demonstration was conducted on using fire extinguishers and a detailed explanation about their operation was provided. The seminar emphasized the importance of employees prioritizing their safety and the crucial role of section in-charges in ensuring that 25,000 kV OHE lines are completely isolated during electrical locomotive operations to prevent accidents. Additionally, participants were trained on how to control fires using fire extinguishers through a hands-on session. Several employees including Divisional Mechanical Engineer Sudhanshu Malik, Divisional Electrical Engineer Amit Kumar, Senior Engineers Omkar Chaudhary, Uma Kant Singh, Chandan Kumar, PK Verma, Nilesh Kumar Rai, Pravesh Kumar, Vikas Kumar, Mukteshwar Ohdar, Suman Singh, Mahesh Prasad Mehta, Sunil Kumar Singh, KK Singh, Vijay Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan, Ronnie Minj, Nitesh Kumar, Anil Kumar Yadav, Savita Devi, Sindhu Kumari, Babita, Babulal, Siyaram, Sanjeev, Alok, Vikas, and Amit were present at the seminar.

Several trains that usually pass through Kanpur Central Station will be rerouted starting today due to non-interlocking work being carried out between Malakhedi and Mahadewkhedi. Some trains will be canceled. The Lokmanya Tilak Terminal Kanpur Central 04152 Express will travel via Khandwa, Itarsi, Bina, and Jhansi on June 15th, 22nd, and...
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29th. On June 21st, the Kanpur Central Lokmanya Tilak Terminal 04151 will follow the same route. Other affected trains include the Lokmanya Tilak Prayagraj 01045 on June 18th and 25th, Prayagraj Lokmanya Tilak Terminal 01046 on June 19th and 26th, Bengaluru Prayagraj 04132 on June 19th and 26th, Prayagraj Bengaluru 04131 on June 16th, 23rd, and 30th, Lokmanya Tilak Terminal Subedarganj 04116 on June 21st and 28th, and Subedarganj Lokmanya Tilak Terminal 04115 on June 20th and 27th.

Due to non-interlocking work on the Malakhedi-Mahadevkhedi section of West Central Railway in Jabalpur, 18 trains passing through Prayagraj Junction and Prayagraj Chhivki on the Ahmedabad-Indore route will be cancelled from June 16th to July 11th. Additionally, the routes of 8 other trains passing through Prayagraj will be altered for the...
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next few days. The North Central Railway administration released a list of affected trains on Friday. Furthermore, 34 trains on the West Central Railway have been canceled and 13 trains have had their routes changed due to the non-interlocking work. Among the 34 cancelled trains, 18 pass through Prayagraj. Specifically, the route for train 04132 Bengaluru-Prayagraj 19 and 26 June, and 04132 Prayagraj-Bengaluru Special 16, 23, 30 June will be changed to run via Govindpuri, Jhansi instead of Manikpur-Jabalpur.

The Railway administration has cancelled several special trains scheduled to run on different dates due to unavoidable circumstances. The cancelled trains include: 01043 (Lokmanya Tilak-Samastipur) on June 27, 01044 (Samastipur-Lokmanya Tilak) on June 28, 01045 (Lokmanya Tilak-Prayagraj) on June 25 and July 2, 01046 (Prayagraj-Lokmanya Tilak) on June 26 and July...
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3, 01053 (Lokmanya Tilak-Banaras) on June 26, 01054 (Banaras-Lokmanya Tilak) on June 27, 01065 (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj-Agartala) on June 27, 01066 (Agartala-Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj) on June 30, 01105 (Pune-Danapur) on June 24, 01106 (Danapur-Pune) on June 26, 01409 (Danapur-Lokmanya Tilak) on June 22, 24 and 29, and 01410 (Lokmanya Tilak-Danapur) on June 23, 25 and 30.