| Diwali bomb: Most trains show 'no room' by puneetmafia on 08 November, 2012 - 12:00 AM | ||
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 puneetmafia | Diwali bomb: Most trains show 'no room' on 08 November, 2012 - 12:00 AM | |
LUCKNOW: Boarding a train to Delhi, post-Diwali will be almost impossible owing to the festive rush. Though Railways has geared to tackle the rush between Lucknow and New Delhi by providing extra coaches in trains, reservation status for at least 90% of the trains between the two cities, a fortnight before Diwali either show no availability of berths or an unending waiting list.Officials have asked for one more special train between Lucknow and New Delhi from the headquarters to run post Diwali. "We have sent the reminder and by next week, the details will be known," said Ashwini Srivastava, senior divisional commercial manager, Lucknow, Northern Railway. There is a huge waiting, upto 1,000 in sleeper class alone in all the Delhi-bound trains taken together, he said. Lucknow division, therefore, has planned to not only run an additional festival special from November 14 to 19, but also augment coaches in trains like Faizabad-Delhi Express and Padmavat Express. The demand for reservation is huge after Diwali, because most of the people will board the trains back to their work after the festival.There are more than dozen trains connecting Lucknow and New Delhi everyday. But, most of these trains have a reservation deadlock between November 14 and November 17 in all classes. Trains like Lucknow Mail, Shatabdi, Vaishali, Lucknow-New Delhi AC Express, Kaifiyat, Vaishali, Gorakhdham, Sapt Kranti, Avadh Assam, Kashi Vishwanath, Shramjeevi, Bihar Sampark Kranti and Padmavat Express, to name a few, had no reservation available in at least one of these classes on any of these days post Diwali. | ||