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Tracks of history

Every Indian seems to have at least one romantic railway memory

For Indian Railways, Santa Claus never came all this while: Suresh Prabhu

He was referring to finance railway infra by raising resources outside Budget

Indian Railways earn Rs 228 cr more on reserved class child fare

Railways earned Rs 914 cr from child passengers between April 21, 2016, and March 20, 2017

Private trains via the back door

Individuals can 'own' trains in the event of land acquisition disputes with Indian Railways

Indian Railways to install advanced fire alarm system in Rajdhani, Tejas

Indian Railways to install advanced fire alarm system in Rajdhani, Tejas

New spanking clean railways

Even the other big railway station in Kolkata, Sealdah, has a more modest cleaning regime

Railways goes on global shopping spree to acquire 200 kmph locomotives

These locomotives will run trains at 200 km per hour on Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata routes

Flexi fare gives railways a revenue boost

This system has earned Rs 260 cr since September from 142 premium trains against Rs 21 cr past year

Indian Railways to end SAIL monopoly; eyes private steel suppliers

The government has also launched a $15 billion fund to improve railway safety

Railways looks at private suppliers for tracks, in a blow to SAIL

Government has also launched a $15-billion fund to improve rail safety

Neale and Neale

John Neale invented block instrument; his son J E Neale came up with a token dispensing technique

Railways global tender eludes Bhilai plant

BSP has been supplying rails to IR for over five decades

Changes in rail tariffs only after regulator in place

Rail regulator Bill to be taken up in next Parliament session

Bill to set up independent regulator in railways to be placed before Parliament next week

Changes in railway tariffs not before Railway regulator in place

India Inc welcomes Railways' discount scheme

Coal constitutes 45% of railway's freight traffic shares

Railway station facelift likely to get a Chinese touch

Railways estimates programme will benefit more than 100 cities and 16 million passengers a day

Railways to come up with mini-budget tomorrow

With railway budget becoming a history, the roadmap ofIndian railways for a financial year which used to get released with the Budgethas also become thing from the past now. To bring in a new tradition, railway minister Suresh Prabhu is set tolaunch Indian Railways Freight and Passenger Business Action Plan -2017-18,which railway officials are terming as "mini-budget". "Traditionally, a normal railway budget has about 135 pages,out of which about 100 pages are on the action plan for the financial year.With the budgets getting merged, we are unable to present it before parliament.Hence, this launch is like a mini budget," said an official source close to thedevelopment. The plan will be launchedat the railway museum in Delhi tomorrow. The Narendra Modi-led government has broken a 92-year-oldtradition of presenting a separate railway budget this year. This was based ona report by Bibek Debroy, a member of Niti Ayog. The rail Budget was separatedfrom the main Budget, following ...

Indian Railways: Train-2018 will begin its run at 160 kmph from Chennai ICF

Aptly named 'Train-2018', the first trainset is expected to be ready by March next year

NITI Aayog could pitch for new programme to link remote areas by railways

To be modelled along the lines of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Railways changes tracks, offers virtual tourism

Google, IRCTC and Taj Hotels are on the fast track to give a fresh look to Delhi's National Rail Museum