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Blog Entry# 3510964
Posted: Jun 09 2018 (22:40)

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Jun 09 2018 (22:40)   Ten per cent drop in punctuality rate of trains: Northern Railways

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Days after being reprimanded by Railway Minister Piyush Goyal over the declining punctuality of trains, the Northern Railways (NR) today clarified that despite large-scale works underway...

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* Looks like when RM took over, the accidents were a headache, and after accidents are somewhat controlled, the punctuality has gone haywire.
* Probably the speed of trains have been reduced marginally to ensure safety. * The easiest solution to improve punctuality is to increase the slack time, which this govt. can ill afford to do because it has already announced speed increment of notoriously slow Indian trains as a priority.
* IR has been reducing the journey time of trains year after the other and taking full credit for it.
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But such steps have to be taken after making adequate improvements in track structure, layouts, signalling, trains, etc which involves a lot of time and money. Else the chances of accidents or poor punctuality increase drastically.

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