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Central Railways announces a long list of summer special trains!

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Like all the other railways, Central Railways too announced 144 special summer trains that will help reduce the extra rush during this vacation season. All these special trains will run from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Nagpur, LTT to Karmali, Dadar to Bhusaval, Dadar to Zarap and Dadar to Sawantwadi.

Here are few details you need to know about these trains: –

1. The LTT to Nagpur weekly superfast special will be leaving the former station at 12:45 am every Sundays on April 3rd till June 26th. This train will return from Nagpur at 9:15 pm every Sundays on April 3th to June 36th. The train halts are several important stations like Thane, Nasik Road, Kalyan and many others. If you want to travel by this train, you can use the spot your train services.

  1. The LTT to Karmali special will be leaving the LTT station at 1:10 am every Fridays that is the 1st April till the June 3rd. This will return back on the same day and will be in action till June 3rd.

While these are just a list of few trains from LTT to other stations, there are countless trains that the Central Railways has decided to run. Few of them are mainly for those who want to travel down south. You can get all the information below. 1_track_my_train
There are also several trains from Mumbai till the south. Here are some details you must know: –

1. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus to Ernakulam Junction train will be running every Thursday from 14th April to 2nd June. This will leave from CST station at 8:30 Pm. This train will return from Erankulam to CST every Friday. The train is already in action from March 15th and will be running till 3rd June. This train will be halting at several important stations like Thane, Dadar, Roha, Panvel, Ratnagiri, Mangalore Jn, Tirur, Kannur, Sawantwadi Road and many other railway stations.

  1. Another train will be running from CST station at 1:10 Pm every Sunday from the 17th of April to the 5th of June. This train will be reaching Chennai Central the next day at the same time. The train will return from Chennai Central at 4:00 Pm on Mondays from 18th of April till the 6th of June. This train is scheduled to halt at Thane, Lonavala, Kalyan, Dadar, Pune, Solapur, Wadi, Yadgir, Muddanur, Perambur and several other important railway stops.

You can use the spot my train services to locate or see timings of these summer special trains. Most of the Central Railways trains will be superfast or fast so that people can reach and come back quickly without having to waste too much journey time.

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The latest initiatives made by the Indian Railways

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The Indian Railways is constantly improving and developing. It has come up with quite a few new innovations in the recent past and has proposed many more. They want to ensure their passengers not just a comfortable but also a reliable travel experience.

Here are the latest initiatives by the Indian Railways for a ‘happy journey’

As per the reports, this scheme has been launched on pilot basis and the service will be available in more than 200 cities initially. Customers can book a ticket 5 days prior to commencement of journey and can get it delivered at home where the payment can be made.

  1. The cash on delivery payment method for booking tickets

For customers, who do not have access to the net banking facilities and for those who do not prefer using their credit or debit cards for online transactions, the Indian Railways introduced the COD–Cash on Delivery payment system. You can book online but pay in cash. If the reports are to be trusted, the COD scheme has been launched on the basis of the pilots and initially, the service will be available in not more than 200 cities. The passenger can book the ticket online before six days of the journey’s commencement and can have the ticket delivered on their address for the payment.

  1. Eco-friendly vacuum toilets on the train

The Railway Minister, in the Rail budget 2015-2016 announced that the Indian Railways would install 100 vacuum toilets in Shatabdi Express on the Delhi-Chandigarh route. However, this is for trial basis and if the initiative turns out well, each train in India will have vacuum toilets.

Vacuum or the eco-friendly toilets are very important since they prevent any kind of corrosion on railway tracks when the train is stopped for discharging all the waste on the tracks.

There are also plans of swapping the toilets with bio-friendly ones.driverless_metro

  1. Free wifi at stations and in trains

There are quite a few luxury trains, which have already been providing wifi connectivity since quite some time, but Prime Minister Modi wants that at least ten more long express trains get wifi. It is likely that priority will be extended to Rajdhani, Duronto and the Shatabdi express.

Also, the railways are looking forward to offer free Wi-Fi facilities to a total of 400 railway stations in the country, but it can be used for only 30 minutes.

Bangalore railway station became the foremost station in India to get Wi-Fi facility for offering high-speed connectivity to the passengers. This service began in October 2014. Later, the service started at Ahmadabad railway station on 31st January, 2015.

  1. Bullet trains – Indian Railways came up with a proposal of high-speed bullet trains in the country on the 2015 Republic Day Parade. Bullets trains will run only on three routes by the end of this year.

With such a lot of emancipation in the railway sector, from the facility to spot ur train to the availability of nutritious food to vacuum toilets, our country sure is moving ahead on the tracks of development.