Title - More rail links from city soon Trains to Lalkuan (Uttarakhand), Shirdi and Hazur Sahib to ply from n

Chandigarh: From next week, the city will be connected to Lalkuan (Uttarakhand), Shridi and Hazur Sahib by rail as the Northern Railway has finalised the schedule of these trains from the Chandigarh station. According to the schedule, the train between Amritsar-Lalkuan via Chandigarh will ply from October 2, the Nangal Dam-Anadpur Sahib-Chandigarh-Hazur Sahib (Nanded Express) train from October 3 and Kalka-Chandigarh-Shirdi Express will commence from October 6.The Railways has decided to run a new weekly air-conditioned express train (number 14605 and 14606) between Amritsar-Lalkuan-Amritsar o­n every Wednesday from both directions.The 14606 weekly AC express train will depart from Amritsar at 05.55 am every Wednesday and reach Lalkuan at 08.50 pm. In the return journey, the 14605 Lalkuan-Amritsar weekly AC express train will depart from Lalkuan at 11.15 pm and reach Amritsar at 02.45 pm the next day.A spokesperson for Northern Railway said the trains would have halts at Beas, Jalandhar city, Phagwara, Ludhiana, New Morinda, Sahibzada Ajitsingh Nagar, Chandigarh, Ambala Cantt, Jagadhari, Saharanpur, Roorkee, Laksar, Najibabad, Moradabad and Kashipur on both journeys. There will be 16 coaches, includiing 13 AC III tier coaches and three AC chair car coaches.

The Hazoor Saheb Nanded Express weekly train via Chandigarh (number 22458) will commence from October 3 from Nangal Dam at 4.20 pm and halt at Chandigarh at 7:08 pm and reach Nanded at 11:45 pm the next day. The train will ply on every Friday from Nagal Dam and on every Saturday from Nanded. In the return journey, the train (number 22457) will start at 11 am from Nanded and halt at Chandigarh at 6 am the next day and reach Nagal Dam at 8:25 pm. There will be halts at Anandpur Sahib, Rupnagar, Mohali, Chandigarh, Ambala Cantt, Panipat, New Delhi, Mathura, Gwalior and Basmat.

Another train, Kalka-Chandigarh-Shirdi Express (number 22455) will start from Kalka at 7 pm and take a halt at Chandigarh at 7:30 pm. It will reach Manmadh at 10:15 pm (third day). In the return journey, the train (number 22456) will start from Manmadh at 9:25 pm and will reach Chandigarh at 11:55 am (third day), and Kalka at 12:30 pm. The train will ply on Fridays and Sundays from Kalka and on Saturdays and Tuesdays from Manmadh. On both journeys, the train will also halt at Mathura, Agra, Gwalior, Jhansi, Bhopal and Itrasi.