No more festive rush! Indian Railways approves 392 Festival Special Trains - FULL LIST, Fare, Schedule, and other details
"The fare for these Festival Special services shall be that applicable for special trains. Zonal Railways will notify their schedule well in advance," Ministry of Railways said in a statement.
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With an aim to clear the festive rush, Ministry of Railways has approved 196 pairs (392 trains) of “Festival Special” services over Indian Railways to be operated from 20th October 2020 to 30th November 2020.
"The fare for these Festival Special services shall be that applicable for special trains. Zonal Railways will notify their schedule well in advance," Ministry of Railways said in a statement.
FULL LIST of Festival Special Trains:-
Earlier, in a good news for rail passengers, the Northern Railways on Oct 12 had said that it will start the services of 40 more trains, including the Shatabdi Express, Duranto and Rajdhani Express.
Northern Railways spokesperson Deepak Kumar had said that it has decided to operate the Hazrat Nizamuddin-Pune A.C. Duronto Express Special, New Delhi-Kalka Shatabdi Special, New Delhi-Dehradun Shatabdi Special and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra-New Delhi A.C. Express Special from October 15.
It will also commence the services of Bandra Terminus-Hazrat Nizamuddin Yuva Express Special from October 16, and Hazrat Nizamuddin-Bandra Termius Yuva Express Special from October 17.
The NR will start the operations of Lokmanya Tilak-Haridwar A.C. Express Special from October 15, Lokmanya Tilak-Lucknow A.C. Express Special from October 17, Nagpur-Amritsar A.C. Express Special from October 17, and Dibrugarh-New Delhi Rajdhani Special from October 12.
The Railways had suspended the operations of all passenger, mail and express trains from March 25 when the Covid-19 lockdown was imposed. It started operating Shramik Special trains for migrant labourers from May 1 and 15 pairs of special air-conditioned trains from May 12. Subsequently, 100 pairs of train services started on June 1, followed by 80 more trains from September 1 and 40 pairs of clone trains from September 12.
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