Title - Tickets available for special trains

Unavailability of berths in regular trains running between Lucknow and New Delhi should not worry passengers as they can always book a ticket for festival special trains. Railways has released a list of special trains in which seats are available in October and November in both the AC and sleeper classes of travel. The trains in which seats are available are 04201/04202 Lucknow-New Delhi festival special, 04208 New Delhi-Lucknow festival special, 04203/04204 Varanasi-Delhi Jn. Festival special, 04114 Udhampur-Allahabad festival special, 05044 Bandra Terminus-Gorakhpur festival special, 01028 Varanasi-Lok Manya Tilak festival special, 05028 Anand Vihar Terminal-Gorakhpur festival special, 05652 Varanasi-Guwahati festival special and 04008 New Delhi-Howrah festival special.
    Meanwhile, North Central Railway administration has decided to levy mela surcharge on passengers at Vindhyachal station ahead of Navaratra Mela. The mela surcharge has been imposed in view of diverse facilities that are being provided at Vindhyachal. The mela surcharge would be collected from the passengers from October 16 to 29.
    For passengers travelling in the second general class and mail and express trains, mela surcharge will be about Rs 3 while passengers traveling in the sleeper class would have mela surcharge of about Rs 5. However, for passengers travelling in AC III tier/ AC Chair Car, a surcharge of about Rs 7 would be taken.