Railways has also been focusing on building better domestic infrastructure for manufacturing trains
Ministry expects to end FY23 with earnings of Rs 2.35 trillion
Almost 16 trains were running late on Friday due to foggy conditions in most of north India, affecting visibility
Under monetisation, the government does not sell assets, but leases them for a certain period for redevelopment and operations by a private entity, while continuing to retain their ownership
The proposed land parcel will be leased out for 99 years and the reserve price of the land is Rs 73 crores
The contract is the single biggest order for Siemens, the company said in a disclosure to the stock exchanges, and will be used for freight transport
Maruti Suzuki India said it transported over 320,000 vehicles using Indian railways last year, its highest ever dispatch in a calendar year
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Indian Railways is going to run its Bharat Gaurav Deluxe AC Tourist Train on a very special tour "Shri Ram-Janaki YatraThe tourist train will start from Delhi on February 17, 2023 and this initiative will strengthen the bilateral relations and also promote the cultural relations between the two countries.The tourist train will include the visit of Nandigram, Sitamarhi, Kashi and Prayagraj as added attractions in the tour. There will be a two-night stay in the hotels, one each at Janakpur and Varanasi respectively, while the visit to Ayodhya, Sitamarhi and Prayagraj will be covered in the day halt at the destination.The State of Art Deluxe AC Tourist Train has a host of astounding features including two fine dining restaurants, a modern kitchen, shower cubicles in coaches, sensor-based washroom functions, foot massager. The fully air-conditioned train provides two types of accommodation viz. 1st AC and 2nd AC. The train has enhanced security features of CCTV cameras and Security Guards
'The land parcel is adjacent to the Dwarka Sector 21 Metro station and is surrounded by well-developed physical and social infrastructure, making it ideal for a mix-use development'
The railways estimates that it will cost Rs 312 crore per depot to upgrade the maintenance depots
The train will have intermediate halts in Warangal, Khammam, Vijayawada and Rajahmundry
India's longest train Vivek Express, which covers a distance of 4,189 km across 9 states, would now run 4 days a week from Dibrugarh in Assam, Northeast Frontier Railway officials said
The railways on Sunday said foggy weather has affected the movement of over 480 trains. "Around 335 trains have been delayed, 88 cancelled, 31 diverted and 33 short terminated due to foggy weather," a railway official said. A blinding layer of dense fog enveloped northwest India and the adjoining central and eastern parts of the country, affecting road, rail and air traffic movement. Very dense fog lowered visibility to 50 metres at the Palam observatory near the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport at 5:30 am. The Delhi International Airport Limited tweeted that flights, which are not CAT III compliant, may get affected. Passengers have been advised to contact the airline concerned for updated flight information. According to the weather office, very dense fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, between 51 and 200 metres is dense, between 201 and 500 metres moderate, and between 501 and 1,000 metres shallow.
People taking the train on the Kalka-Shimla heritage line may soon get to travel in advanced vistadome narrow gauge coaches which will have glass roofs and large windows and offer a panoramic view of the scenic route. The Rail Coach Factory (RCF) here has commenced production of these coaches, which are expected to be ready by next month. These coaches will have a trial run on the Kalka-Shimla route before they are put into service, officials said. The production of the vistadome narrow gauge coaches commenced following successful oscillation trials of two prototype coaches on the Kalka-Shimla heritage track in December last year. The RCF is likely to roll out four of these coaches by the first week of February, its general manager Ashesh Agrawal told PTI here. Initially, the four coaches -- AC executive car (12 seats), AC chair car (24 seats), non-AC chair car (30 seats) and one power-cum-luggage and guard car -- will be manufactured and handed over to the Research Designs and ...
Passengers are likely to face inconvenience as over 32 long-distance trains are running behind their schedule by up to seven hours or more due to fog and bad weather conditions on Saturday
Several parts of north India reeled under severe cold and dense fog affected railway movement, with Delhi recording a minimum temperature of three degrees Celsius -- the lowest in January in two years -- making it cooler than several hill stations. Most people kept indoors and turned to space heaters and cups of hot beverages to keep themselves warm as frosty winds from the snow-clad Himalayas barrelled through the plains, including the national capital. Delhi's minimum temperature was lower than Dalhousie (4.9 degrees Celsius), Dharamshala (5.2 degrees Celsius), Kangra (3.2 degrees Celsius), Shimla (3.7 degrees Celsius), Dehradun (4.6 degrees Celsius), Mussoorie (4.4 degrees Celsius) and Nainital (6.2 degrees Celsius), according to official data. Jammu and Kashmir too saw a dip in temperature, with capital Srinagar recording its coldest night of the season so far at minus 6.4 degrees Celsius on Wednesday night against minus 5.2 degrees Celsius the night before. The India ...
All flight operations are currently normal and the passengers are requested to contact the airline concerned for updated flight information, the authorities added
"This will mean that these heritage routes will go completely green," said Vaishnaw
The total capital expenditure (capex) of the railway ministry is expected to jump 20 per cent to Rs 3 trillion in FY24