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  Indian Railways News  / Chaos at railway stations in national capital as 35 lakh go home in last 2 days

NEW DELHI: Railway stations across the city witnessed a mad rush two days before Diwali as people made plans to meet their family members in other states during the festive week. According to the railways commercial department, 35 lakh passengers have left the city in past two days. The railways has recorded 30% additional footfall in view of the upcoming festivals — Diwali, Chhath Puja and Bhai Dooj.With the highest number of special trains being run this year and a significant augmentation of coaches since Durga Puja, many hail this as a record. Though the railways has made all possible arrangements — even stopping sale of tickets at platforms from November 11 to November 23, and making alternate arrangements to ensure trains bound for Bihar, UP and West Bengal do not arrive on corresponding platforms — the rush near the general compartments could hardly be contained. This is despite the presence of a special contingent of RPF placed before coaches at the instance of Northern Railway GM Vijay Kumar Gupta, who inspected the New Delhi station.This year alone, 80 special trains are running on Northern Railway, which will make 1,762 trips during Chhath. The passengers, however, complained that the special trains were not on time. "I had taken the special 9pm train to Lucknow. The arrival time was 5.50am, but the train came six hours late,'' said Sucheta Lalchandani. Other passengers to Bihar said most of the special trains, especially those to Anand Vihar, were eight to 11 hours behind schedule.Additional ticket counters have been provided over the entire Northern Railway. Of these, 25 extra booking counters for reserved tickets have become functional in Delhi area, of which 7 are in IRCA. For unreserved tickets, seven additional counters have been provided at both New Delhi railway station and Anand Vihar Terminal, while four have been provided at Old Delhi.

  Indian Railways News  / Revenue earning of North Frontier Railways increased

GUWAHATI: Northeast Frontier Railway's (NFR) revenue earnings have increased between April to October 2012. The goods earning is Rs 751.94 crore during April 2012 - October 2012 compared to Rs 721.57 crore during the same period of last financial year

Chief Public Relations Officer of NFR, S.Hajong in a statement stated despite severe disruptions to train movements due to natural calamities like massive land slides, militancy and civil agitations the gross earnings of railways on originating basis during April 1 2012 to October 21, 2012 were Rs 1606.44 crore as against Rs 1508.03 crore during the same period of last financial year, registering an increase of '98.41 crore.

The total passenger earnings have gone up from Rs 509.60 crore to Rs 575.65 crore, showing an increase of Rs 66.05 crore(12.96 per cent higher). The total other coaching earnings during the financial same period has been Rs 74.49 crore compared to Rs 55.38 crore during the same period last fiscal, registering an increase of Rs.19.11 crore(34.5 per cent higher).

  Indian Railways News  / आरएसी को भी नहीं मिली कन्फर्म सीट

मुजफ्फरपुर, संसू : छठ महापर्व में दिल्ली, मुम्बई, हावड़ा, अमृतसर आदि अन्य जगहों से लोग अपने घर आने लगे हैं। भीड़ का हाल यह कि आरएसी यात्रियों को भी कंफर्म सीट नहीं मिल सकी। इन्हें बैठकर ही रात गुजारनी पड़ी। शुक्रवार को सप्तक्रांति, वैशाली, बिहार संपर्क कांति, स्वतंत्रता सेनानी, ग्वालियर मेल, लिच्छवी एक्सप्रेस व अन्य ट्रेनों के विभिन्न कोच के यात्री जंक्शन पर उतरे। कई यात्रियों ने बताया कि बैठने की जगह तक नहीं मिली। मजबूरी में खड़ा होकर सफर करना पड़ा। सीतामढ़ी निवासी सरोज ठाकुर ने बताया कि पर्व में परिवार को लेकर चलना और कठिन है। आरएसी पांच नंबर था। बैठने की जगह मिली।

  Indian Railways News  / ट्रेनों का परिचालन बाधित

पूर्व रेलवे जोन में माल्दा रेल मंडल अंतर्गत बांका जिले के तेलिया हाल्ट के पास पटरी का एक फिस प्लेट खुला रहने से बांका-बाराहाट रेलखंड पर ट्रेनों का परिचालन आज सुबह करीब डेढ घंटे तक बाधित रहा.बांका के स्टेशन प्रबंधक सीडी खाल्खो ने बताया , ‘‘ सुबह 7.40 बजे तेलिया हाल्ट के पास एक फिस प्लेट खुले रहने की सूचना मिली थी. इस कारण बांका से पटना जाने वाली राजेंद्रनगर इंटरसिटी एक्सप्रेस (13241) को कुछ देर तक एहतियात के तौर पर रोका गया और बाद में इसे रवाना किया गया.’’ उन्होंने बताया कि फिस प्लेट ठीक होने तक करीब डेढ घंटे तक बांका-बाराहाट रेलखंड पर ट्रेनों परिचालन बाधित रहा. बाद पटरी को दुरुस्त कर लिया गया और ट्रेनों का परिचालन इस मार्ग पर सामान्य है.

  Indian Railways News  / Specail trains run out of seats

RANCHI: The Chhath special trains introduced by the railways to cater to the festival rush are running out of seats. This despite the fact that the Ranchi division of the railway recently introduced three trains -- the Ranchi-Saharsha Chhath puja special, the Ranchi-Katihar Chhath puja special and the Hatia Yeswantpur Chhat puja special -- for Chhath, the biggest festival in Bihar and Jharkhand. All the trains which are running between various destinations in Bihar from Ranchi and Hatia railway stations are crammed with passengers who are going home to celebrate Chhath.Ranchi DRM G Malaya said, "The special trains were introduced in the wake of high demand during the festival of Chhath. Most of the trains are crammed due to the huge rush of people going to Bihar from Ranchi."The three special trains, introduced when waiting lists in various trains going via these (Katihar, Saharsa and Yeswantpur) junctions, were huge and passengers on these destinations were left high and dry. "Most of the passengers had to go to Patna and then go to Katihar as direct trains are not available," said Chotanagpur Passengers Association vice-president Ashok Nagpal.A large number of people from Bihar, who live in Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Dhanbad and other cities for jobs, usually go to their native places in Chhat. The rush has caused acute scarcity of seats in the special trains as well. Though the railway officials concerned failed provide the exact number of seats availability in the special trains, sources in the railway reservation counter said on Saturday there were about 50 passengers in the waiting lists in the Ranchi-Saharsa Chhat special. Seats are also not available in any of its AC3 and one AC2 coaches.

Similarly in the Ranchi-Katihar Chhat special which has one AC2, two AC3 coaches, besides nine sleeper coaches and three general coaches, seats are a rare commodity. On Saturday its sleeper class showed a waiting list of 45, the sources said. Likewise, seats are not available in the Hatia-Yeswantpur Chhat puja special too. "A large chunk of seats are sold on the very day booking opens," said Ranchi railway division PRO Kalavanti.

As the special trains are not able to meet the extended demand during the festival, the railways has attached two to four extra coaches to every Bihar-bound train from Ranchi and Hatia railway stations.

In Patliputra Express two extra coaches have been added. Extra coaches have also been added to the Hatia-Patna Super Express, the Patna-Rajendra Nagar-Hatia Express, the Ranchi-Patna Jan Shatabdi Express, the Vananchal Express, the Ranchi-Bhagalpur Express and other trains. Rush of passengers is also being witnessed in these trains and there is a long lsim of passengers in the waiting list.