On A hot summer afternoon in 1853, as the first steam locomotive pulled out of Bombay, India entered the rail era. Today, 160 years later, even at a time when the Railways are making headlines for the wrong reasons, a ride aboard the Vivek Express is the opportunity of a
Gorakhpur: The city railway station has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, for sometime now, with cases of heist and pushing travellers off the coaches coming to light. The GRP and the RPF tasked with the security of the passengers seem to have put their hands up,...
A "weld failure" had caused the derailing of Muzaffarpur-Yesvantpur Express here last month which killed one person and injured 32 others, according to the provisional findings of the Railway Safety Commissioner. S K Mittal, Commissioner for Railway Safety, Southern Railway, had held a statutory inquiry into the derailment. "According to...
An additional air-conditioned coach has now been introduced for exclusive use of central paramilitary personnel in four Express trains.The AC-III tier coaches will have 64 seats each and they have been authorised to four trains- Awadh-Assam Express (Guwahati-Lalgarh), Lal Quila Express (Kolkata-Delhi), Kolkata-Jammu Tawi Express (Kolkata-Jammu) and Andaman Express (Chennai...
NEW DELHI: Candidates appearing for the Civil Services Preliminary Examination have got a helping hand from Delhi Metro which has compiled a list of stations nearest to the 356 exam centres in the national capital.The list compiled by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation shows the nearest Metro stations to all examination...
The company has garnered three large value projects each of around Rs 200 crore from Railways in the second half of the last year.
Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engineers) has rallied 12% to Rs 56, extending its previous day’s 3% gain, after the company said it has garnered three large value projects...
AURANGABAD: Buoyed by the successful installation of 48 bio-toilets on tow long-distance trains, the South Central Railway (SCR) has decided to replace the existing excreta disposal systems in trains such as Secunderabad-Manmad Ajantha Express that passes through Nizambad, Nanded, Aurangabad and Manmad.In January this year, the SCR had installed bio-toilets...
Shri.D.P.Pande, General Manager, South Central Railway inaugurated the Data Centre of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. in Rail Nilayam in the presence of Shri R.K.Bahuguna, Chairman & Managing Director of RailTel Corporation of India Ltd..
This is the first Data Centre of RailTel as well as Indian Railways.This Data Centre is...
Twelve Special Weekly Trains Between Bangalore and Patna
In order to clear extra rush of passengers, Twelve Special Trains will be run between Bangalore and Patna as per the following schedule:-
Train No. 06513 Bangalore - Patna Special Train will depart Bangalore at 10 10 hrs on 21st, 28th May and 4th,...
The public pf Bazpur & Kashipur doing struggle to play the train TARAI (Bazpur- Kashipur) to Punjab in this connection Mr.Keshav Kumar Passi met with Cabinet minister Mr. Harish Rawat At Delhi & Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal former Railway minister of India at Chandigarh, Rana Gunjeet Singh MLA & Vijay...
As already observed by our Admins Jay Shah & Nazeer in prior posts [/blog/post/735925|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/735925] and [/blog/post/735925|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/734351] , the Seat Availability Check, Search and Availability Calendar have now been implemented. The feature is an amalgamation of numerous suggestions put forward by our members/Admins over the past few months. Hearty thanks to...
A new class of members called "Forum Monitor" has been introduced. These members will have free rein to Delete Posts, Suspend Members and Archive Blogs. The defining characteristics of these members is:
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2. They are NOT active bloggers, and so not emotionally involved.
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The following modifications are being made in the Forum:
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1. The Opinion box will now show a detailed list of Members who provided the rating. When you click on Great, Thanks, Useful or Agree, a box will open up beneath displaying the names. When you hover over the respective member names,...
Further elucidation on UnAnswered and Popular tabs.
UnAnswered:
Only posts tagged with "Travel Question" within the last 7 days are candidates for the UnAnswered tab. Other general comments may not necessarily deserve a reply. If members miscategorize their genuine questions as something else - Rail/Travel, etc. - they will have to...
Members mark your calendars. The first online IRI Quiz Contest will be held on Sunday, Feb 3 @ 8pm IST. Some points:
1. You would need a modern mobile or desktop browser. No Opera Mini. You would need to ensure that you have good internet connectivity.
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2. NO easy questions. 20 medium...
As per the suggestion presented [here|http://indiarailinfo.com/blog/post/615661] , a new experimental feature is being introduced today.
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At the top of the member profile, you will see a new link "Block Member" (see pic). If you block any member, they will NOT be able to reply within Blog Entries started by you, OR...
I am taking the pain to tell you about the grievances in garib rath. There are bedbugs all over the seats and we are really feel uncomfortable by seeing the rats and roaches run here and there. Please take the required actions, this my humble request to you.
