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Posted: Oct 22 2015 (16:10)
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Last Response: Nov 03 2015 (11:06)
49 Responses
Last Response: Nov 03 2015 (11:06)
Many a times I have seen people were debating over late running of trains in NCR. I never get involved in any of these debates. Last week I went to visit my maternal aunt(Mausi) in Allahabad for some family function. My maternal Uncle (Mausa) works in NCR as a senior sectional engineer. So, it was a golden opportunity for me to ask him why trains run late in railways, especially in NCR? Discussion was very healthy and interesting. He told me railway tracks are over-saturated with traffic in NCR. Every year railways starts new trains on existing infrastructure which was originally designed to handle less than quarter of traffic(1/4) of present day. Right now NCR tracks are 400% saturated, than it was originally designed. He also told me that 70% of revenue are generated from freight traffic and Railways incures loss from passenger traffic from very first day of operation. He...
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8 Public Posts - Thu Oct 22, 2015
Nicely explained. I think that majority of the members are aware of all this, not exactly 100% what you said but definitely have an overview of this.
All of the Railway employees and their families always talk about the loss from passenger trains operations, but they never forget to use "Railways passes" for their trips and tours. Even when they are aware that passenger trains won't earn anything to the railways, but never say no to the introduction / stoppage of trains at their home / nearest station. In fact, they demand more and get approved easily by another railway officer :) that's very much obvious :D
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All of the Railway employees and their families always talk about the loss from passenger trains operations, but they never forget to use "Railways passes" for their trips and tours. Even when they are aware that passenger trains won't earn anything to the railways, but never say no to the introduction / stoppage of trains at their home / nearest station. In fact, they demand more and get approved easily by another railway officer :) that's very much obvious :D
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