Indian Railways extends 22 pairs of train services

Indian railway extends 22 pairs of train services running on Indian Railways system. It was announced by Piyush Goyal, Minister or Railways and Coal, in Rail Bhavan on Wednesday.

These extensions will provide additional connectivity between various places in the country. Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board; Girish Pillai, Member Traffic, Railway Board and other senior officers were present on the occasion.

Speaking of the occasion, the minister said, the extension of train services will reduce additional lie-over time of the trains across various Zones of Indian Railways.

“The first successful experiment of extension was introduced on Gatimaan Express, which was extended from Agra to Gwalior and then to Jhansi,” said the minister.

“The proposed extension of 22 pairs of train services will help in development of these areas and will also help to utilize our resources to the full extent,” he added.

All the extensions have been planned by utilizing the lie-over periods of the existing trains at their respective terminating stations. These extensions will help in more gainful utilization of Coaching Stock and will augment revenue of Indian Railways. It will also enable using present assets with maximum utilization.

Howrah-Vijayawad Humsafar Express (extended to Tirupati), Bikaner-Chennai Anuvrat Express (extended to Madurai), and Kamakhya-Jaipur Kaivguru Express (extended to Udaipur), Udhampur-Jammu Tawi DEMU (extened to Pathankot) are some among the 22 extended train services.