With a view to clear extra rush of passengers, it has been decided to run nine pair of Special trains between Santragachi-Puri-Santragachi during the period from 06.07.18 to 01.09.18.

The Special Train (08404) leaving Santragachi every Saturday at 19.10 hrs will reach Puri at 04:00 hrs the next day. In the opposite direction, the Special Train (08403) will leave Puri every Friday at 21:25 hrs arriving Santragachi at 06.45 hrs, the next day.
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The Special train will have o­ne AC 2 Tier, three AC 3 Tier, ten Sleeper Class and four general second class coaches & have stoppages at Kharagpur, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar and Khurda Road stations between Santragachi and Puri.
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To clear the extra rush of passengers, it has been decided to run weekly Special Trains between Tatanagar and Kacheguda from 02.07.2018 to 31.07.2018.
The Tatanagar-Kacheguda Special (07439) leaving Tatanagar every Tuesday at 22:50 hrs will reach Kacheguda at 05.00 hrs o­n Thursday. In the opposite direction, the train (07438) leaving Kacheguda every Monday at 13:00 hrs will arrive Tatanagar at 19.45 hrs, the next day.

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Special trains will have o­ne AC 2 Tier, two AC 3 Tier, seven sleeper class and six general second class coaches and will stoppages at Chaibasa, Dangoaposi, Banspani, Jaroli, Kendujhargarh, Sukinda Road, Cuttak, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road, Berhampur, Palasa, Srikakulam Road, Vijayanagaram, Visakhapatnam, Duvvada, Anakapalli, Samalkot, Rajahmundry, Tadepalligudem, Eluru, Vijayawada, Guntur, Piduguralla, Miryalaguda, Nalgonda and Malkajgiri between Tatanagar and Kacheguda.
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It is notified for the information of general public that for the convenience of the rail passengers, a new weekly Antyodaya Express Train No. 22551/22552 will be introduced to run between Darbhanga and Jalandhar City .Regular service of 22551/22552 Darbhanga -Jalandhar City- Darbhanga weekly Antyodaya Express Train will be from 19.05.2018 from Darbhanga and from 20.05.2018 from Jalandhar City. Schedule of this train will be as under :
22551/22552 Darbhanga-Jalandhar City-Darbhanga weekly Antyodaya Express Train
The 22551 Darbhanga -Jalandhar City  weekly Antyodaya Express Train will  depart from Darbhanga o­n every Saturday at 03.25...
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a.m. from 19.05.2018  to reach Jalandhar City at  05.10 a.m. the next day. In the return direction, the 22552 Jalandhar City- Darbhanga weekly Antyodaya Express Train will depart from Jalandhar City o­n every Sunday  at 10.00 a.m. from 20.05.2018  to reach  Darbhanga at 11.30  a.m. the next day.
       Comprising of sixteen general class coaches, the 22551/22552 Darbhanga -Jalandhar City- Darbhanga weekly Antyodaya Express Train will stop at Sitamarhi, Raxaul, Sagauli, Bettiah, Narkatiaganj, Gorkahpur, Sitapur Cantt., Bareilly, Moradabad, Laksar, Saharanpur, Ambala, Sanahwal  & Ludhiana   stations enroute in both the directions.
Inaugural  Run of  02551/02552 Darbhanga-Jalandhar City-Darbhanga Inaugral Special  Antyodaya  Express Train o­n  15.05.2018  from  Darbhanga and o­n  16.05.2018  from Jalandhar City 
           o­n its inaugural run , the  02551 Darbhanga-Jalandhar City Inaugral Special  Antyodaya  Express Train will depart from Darbhanga at 02.30 p.m. o­n  15.05.2018  to arrive at Jalandhar City at 05.10 p.m. the next day. Its return sevice the 02552 Jalandhar City-Darbhanga Inaugral Special  Antyodaya  Express Train will depart from Jalandhar City at 07.10  p.m. o­n  16.05.2018  to arrive at Darbhanga at 11.55 p.m. the next day.
 02551/02552 Darbhanga-Jalandhar City-Darbhanga Inaugral Special  Antyodaya  Express Train will stop at Sitamarhi, Raxaul, Sagauli, Bettiah, Narkatiaganj, Gorkahpur, Sitapur Cantt., Bareilly, Moradabad, Laksar, Saharanpur, Ambala, Sanahwal  & Ludhiana station enroute in both the directions.

On Saturday, 12th May, 2018; a comprehensive review of the position of punctuality of Mail/Express trains o­n Indian railways was done by Chairman Railway Board (CRB), Shri Ashwini Lohani via videoconference. General Managers of the zones of Indian Railways were present in the videoconference. In the videoconference, CRB discussed factors affecting punctuality o­n different zones. Talking o­n the subject of punctuality, CRB said that along with continued focus o­n maintenance, there is a pressing need to improve punctuality of mail/express trains. He advised that in order to improve punctuality, asset failures will have to be controlled and maintenance blocks cleared within the time allocated for the same. He said in view of more blocks of longer duration that are being given now, it is crucial that ‘block bursting’ does not take place. “We will have to put in our 100% efforts to meet the twin challenges of maintenance & infrastructure development...
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along with improvement in punctuality” said the CRB. Speaking o­n the subject GM/NCR Shri M.C.Chauhan said that in order to improve punctuality, the speed potential of 7 pairs of trains running o­n the system of NCR has been increased to 130km/h from 110km/h. He said that hourly monitoring of punctuality is being done in NCR and 60 trains are being monitored at the level of GM. He requested the board to provide approval for upgrading of speed potential of 29 pairs of non-airconditioned trains with LHB coaches from existing 110km/h to 130km/h, in order to free up sectional line-capacity and help to improve punctuality. He also requested the Railway Board to shift some goods trains from the oversaturated A-Route (Ghaziabad-Mughalsarai) of NCR to the ‘B’route of NR (Lucknow-Sultanpur-Varanasi) which was completely electrified and had been made double line also. The suggestion of GM/NCR of shifting 4 trains (Nauchandi, Saryu, AJ Passenger, and Ganga-Gomti express) to Prayag from Allahabad jn was accepted by the Railway Board and it was decided that the shifting would be done o­nce the Prayag Ghat station of Northern Railway had been developed. The videoconference proceeded and ended in a cordial atmosphere.