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Worried, what railway serves you? Now see food preparation in IRCTC kitchen

The kitchen serves 10,000 meals a day for 17 Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Duronto trains departing from New Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin and Anand Vihar Railway Stations

Coaches and numbers

A new report about gangs stealing coaches from Ranchi is simply inaccurate. However, with multiple marshalling yards in Delhi, coaches could have got misplaced

Indian Railways does an airline, will offer free food to passengers

Re-arranging train timings will be done giving a window of two-three hours every day, expanding the window to even five hours on Sundays

Indian Railways to recruit retired staff to preserve heritage stocks

The board also plans to open a logbook of all major events related to the Indian Railways, both at zonal railways as well as at the National Rail Museum

Accrual accounting & the landing of a pilot

The Indian Railways' recent decision to switch from cash-based to accrual-based accounting brings to fruition a vision that found mention in the Railway Minister's Budget Speech for 2003-04

Rail Ministry entity to raise Rs 40 billion for station redevelopment

In the new plan, Indian Railways will offer 20 per cent of the overall area redeveloped for residential purposes; the remaining 80 per cent area will be utilised commercially

Naming trains after individuals? It happens in Britain or Pakistan

More than controversies, the intention is probably not to make trains distinctive through names, after individuals or otherwise

600 railway stations may bear the stamp of India's top architects soon

Hafeez Contractor, Kukreja roped in; 11 architects to be empanelled

Manduadih-Rameswaram Weekly Express tops India's most-delayed trains list

The train starts from UP's Manduadih and travels more than 2,000 km to reach Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram

Siemens, Alstom to make rail coaches with aircraft-like interiors in India

Three foreign consortia are in the race for setting up a Rs 20,000-cr coach factory in West Bengal

For high-speed trains, Indian Railways joins hands with firms like Apple

NITI Aayog had approved Railways' Rs 18,000 cr proposal to increase speed of the Gatiman Express

Ticket cancellations earned railways Rs 1,400 cr in FY17, reveals RTI reply

Indian Railways is also earning revenue through cancellation of unreserved tickets

Your ticket cancellation fees add Rs 1,400 cr annually to Railways earnings

Railways is also earning revenue through the cancellation of unreserved tickets.

Railways taking measures to stem delay due to fog, congestion

15,000 trains got delayed during November - February period due to fog

Railways to add 1,000 MW of solar, 200 MW of wind energy: Suresh Prabhu

Government wants Indian Railways to become a green engine of growth

Railway accidents: What makes train travel so unsafe in India?

As much as 40% of Indian Railways' 1,219 line sections are utilised beyond 100%

Dabhol to supply power to Railways for 5 years at Rs 5.5/unit

GAIL will supply the LNG to the plant at a fixed price for five years

Travelling by train? Railways will soon offer you TV shows, movies

As part of Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu's non-fare revenue policy, which was launched in Jan

C Gopalakrishnan: Our demand for new trains hasn't been attended to

Facilities to Southern Railway, especially in Tamil Nadu, are not being provided adequately

Bibek Debroy: Trains and numbers

Since there is a capacity crunch, shouldn't the number of trains be rationalised?