Western Railways and Railways Board taken a shocking decision to cancel 9 trains of Western Railways permanently. It means these 9 trains will never run again...
The block is a 'corridor block' - which means no trains (passenger or freight) will run in that period. All routes have a corridor block everyday for monitoring and maintenance.
With increase in traffic, most major routes are not getting sufficient time for maintenance. A few years, there was a flurry of accidents in SR, as track maintenance was not done properly due to lack of sufficient corridor block period. ... more...
That said, they could have rationalized the halts and altered schedules to get sufficient maintenance time instead of cancelling trains.
During 2016-17 consequential train accidents decreased from 107 to 104 in comparison to the corresponding period of the previous year. Track Renewal speeded up- 2148 km...
Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu flagged off/inaugurated the following new trains through Video Conferencing from here today i.e. 3rd April, 2017. 1....
MUMBAI: Western Railway will introduce one pair of services between Bandra-Terminus and Veraval. These services will run with state of the art LHB coaches. WR spokesperson...
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