Title - SER’s ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS DURING WINTER SEASON – RUNNING OF SPECIAL TRAINS AND AUGMENTATION OF IM

SER’s ELABORATE ARRANGEMENTS DURING WINTER SEASON –
RUNNING OF SPECIAL TRAINS AND AUGMENTATION OF IMPORTANT MAIL/ EXPRESS TRAINS
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Kolkata, 7th December, 2012:-
With a view to clear extra rush of passengers during winter season, South Eastern Railway has made elaborate arrangement by running special trains towards different directions and augmentation of a number of important mail/express trains including Duronto. Meanwhile, 26 pairs of Winter specials towards different directions are running viz. Santragachi-Chennai Special (5 pairs), Santragachi-Mumbai Special (3 pairs), Ranchi-Katihar Special (9 pairs), Hatia-Visakhapatnam Special (5 pairs) andHatia-Yesvantpur Special (4 pairs) during the period from 2nd December, 2012 to 1st January, 2013. This apart, 15 pairs of mail/express trains including Duronto Express trains have been augmented by attaching extra coaches during the period from 1st December, 2012 to 2nd January, 2013.

SPECIAL TRAINS DURING WINTER

Santragachi-Chennai Central weekly superfast special trains (08041) leaving Santragachi every Sunday at 12.30 hrs. will reach Chennai Central at 17.00 hrs., the next day. In the return direction, the Chennai Central-Santragachi superfast special train (08042) departing Chennai Central every Tuesday at 11.00 hrs. will arrive Santragachi at 14.15 hrs. the next day. This Special train is running during the period from 2nd December, 2012 to 1st January, 2013

Santragachi-Mumbai(LTT) weekly superfast special train(08070) leaving Santragachi every Sunday at 16.05 hrs. will reach Mumbai (LTT) at 23.45 hrs. the next day. In the return direction the Mumbai(LTT) –Santragachi superfast special train (08069) leaving Mumbai(LTT) at 11.25 hrs.every Tuesday will arrive Santragachi at 19.15 hrs., the next day. This Special train is running during the period from 2nd December to 18th December, 2012.

Ranchi-Katihar Bi-weekly special train(08631) leaving Ranchievery Wednesday and Sunday at 14.05 hrs. will reach Katihar at 06.45 hrs., the next day. In the return direction, Katihar-Ranchi Bi-weekly special train(08632) leaving Katihar every Thursday and Monday at 14.00 hrs. will reach Ranchi at 05.35 hrs., the next day. This Special train is running during the period from 2nd December to 31st December, 2012.

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Hatia-Visakhapatnam weekly special train (08637) departing Hatia at 18.20 hrs. every Monday will reach Visakhapatnam, the next day at 09.45 hrs. In the return direction, Visakhapatnam-Hatia weekly special train (08638) leaving Visakhapatnam at 14.25 hrs. every Tuesday will reach Hatia, the next day at 05.45 hrs. This Special train is running during the period from 3rd December, 2012 to 1st January, 2013.

Hatia-Yesvantpur weekly special train (08635) leaving Hatia at 09.40 hrs. every Thursday will reach Yesvantpur at 22.00 hrs., the next day. In the return direction, Yesvantpur-Hatia weekly special train (08636) leaving Yesvantpur at 08.30 hrs every Saturday will reach Hatia at 21.30 hrs., the next day. This Special train will be runningduring the period from 6th December to 29th December, 2012.

AUGMENTATION OFMAIL/EXPRESSINCLUDING DURONTO TRAINS
15 pairs of mail/express including Duronto Express trains havebeen augmented by attaching extra AC-2 Tier, AC-3 Tier, Sleeper Class and /or General 2nd Class Coaches during the period from 1st December, 2012 to 2nd January, 2013 to clear extra rush of passengers during winter. The mail/express train including Duronto trains which have been augmented are 12262/12261 Howrah-Mumbai Duronto Express, 12222/12221 Howrah-Pune Duronto Express, 12245/12246 Howrah-Yesvantpur Duronto Express, 22825/22826 Shalimar-Chennai Central Express, 18009/18010 Santragachi-Ajmer Express, 22851/22852 Santragachi-Mangalore Vivek Express, 22817/22818 Howrah-Mysore Express, 22849/22850 Shalimar-Secunderabad Express, 12867/12868 Howrah-Puducherry Express, 12130/12129 Howrah-Pune Azad Hind Express, 18189/18190 Tatanagar-Rourkela-Alappuzha Link Express, 18103/18104 Tatanagar-Amritsar Jalianwalabag Express, 12889/12890 Tatanagar-Yesvantpur Express, 18181/18182 Tatanagar-Katihar Express and 18101/18102 Tatanagar-Jammu Tawi Express

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