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Aurangabad gets Crue Changing Loby.
The SCR has announced that Aurangabad will now have a crew changing lobby which will hugely benefit the trains running on MMR-PAU section. The loco pilots and guards were complaining about the hectic duty schedules and less rest. This led to regularly late running trains and restless duty hours of train crew.
Aurangabad in total will now have 62 loco pilots, 84 assistant loco pilots and 24 guards. More than 60 trains run on NED-MMR section regularly. Many times it used to happen that a train...
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crew from PAU has to report at PRLI around mid night and from here they use to take train well upto MMR untill 9 Am without rest. The facility at Aurangabad will be beneficial to weekly trains and passenger trains in large. Atleast 10 express trains, 10 passenger trains and 8 goods trains will benefit from this facility. The trains will also able to run on time.