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Posted: Mar 24 2018 (19:15)
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Last Response: Mar 25 2018 (11:26)
6 Responses
Last Response: Mar 25 2018 (11:26)
INDIAN RAILWAYS TO STOP INTRODUCING MAIL/SF AS NEW TRAINS?
These days, there seems to be a trend that IR prefers to introduce only humsafars/ac exp as new trains, and there seems to be very few new trains introduced as express/sf trains. So does this mean IR will stop introducing conventional express trains altogether? I decided to do some fact checking analysis:
-I looked for new introduced trains between 1/10/2017 to today (24/3/2018) using IRI trains list. I compared no. of mail/exp/sf trains introduced vs. no. of 'luxury' trains. My definitions of luxury train...
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These days, there seems to be a trend that IR prefers to introduce only humsafars/ac exp as new trains, and there seems to be very few new trains introduced as express/sf trains. So does this mean IR will stop introducing conventional express trains altogether? I decided to do some fact checking analysis:
-I looked for new introduced trains between 1/10/2017 to today (24/3/2018) using IRI trains list. I compared no. of mail/exp/sf trains introduced vs. no. of 'luxury' trains. My definitions of luxury train...
more...
1 Public Posts - Sat Mar 24, 2018
In that case IR has introduced more luxury trains than new ones, which means there is clear trend, but it needs to be seen if this is sustainable for IR, coz majority of pass. earnings still comes from non-ac if I'm not wrong
3 Public Posts - Sat Mar 24, 2018
1 Public Posts - Sun Mar 25, 2018