RailEnquiry

As many as 42 additional long-distance trains of the South Eastern Railway have been included in the list of trains that are to be cleaned enroute at designated “Clean Train Stations”. These trains were not attended to any “Clean Train Station” in their entire journey earlier.Among the Western India-bound trains, 10 trains have been included at the CTS facilities in Nagpur and five trains were included in CTS facilities at Bilaspur.As far as Southern India trains of SE Railway are concerned, 10 trains have been included in the CTS facilities at Vijayawada and one train at Bhubaneswar.Apart from these, 11 trains have been included in the existing CTS scheme at Kharagpur, 10 trains at Rourkela and one train at Bhusawal.A SER spokesman said: “Clean Train Station Scheme” is one of the major initiatives of Indian Railways under which long distance trains are cleaned by reputed and professional agencies by mechanized process at stations during its scheduled halt. In this scheme, a gang of 25-35 persons attend to the interiors of the trains, especially the toilets that are cleaned by using high pressure jet machines and environment friendly bio-degradable cleaning agents.