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Railways get 45,000 bookings for special trains worth Rs 16 cr on Day 1

45,533 bookings worth Rs 16.15 crore have been recorded for the special trains for the next seven days, the railways said, adding that around 82,317 passengers will travel against these booking

Asymptomatic passengers with confirmed tickets allowed to travel: Railways

The Railways will partially resume its passenger train services after over one and a half months of halt owing to the Covid-19 lockdown in the country

Concessional tickets only for students, patients, Divyangjans: Railways

Indian Railways resumed passenger train operations from today, nearly after two months the services were stopped due to the coronavirus-induced nationwide lockdown.

Indian Railways makes installing Aarogya Setu app 'mandatory' for travel

Passengers, who do not have the app installed on their mobile phones, might be asked to do so after their arrival at the station

Over 450 Shramik trains brought half a million migrants home: Railways

As of May 11, 2020, a total of 49,624 migrants have been safely brought in at different stations in NCR in 42 terminating trains

Railways to resume passenger service in phases with strict safety norms

Passengers can make advance reservations seven days earlier from the normal four months before the date of journey. On cancellation, only 50 per cent of the fare would be refunded

IRCTC site starts with 2-hour lag; Howrah-Delhi tickets gone in 10 minutes

Railways starts site 2 hours later but denies it crashed

Analysts cautious on railway stocks despite resumption in train services

Analysts believe the resumption of passenger train services is like a sentimental boost from the government and can give a short-term bounce to the stocks, an extension of lockdown may dent sentiment

Covid-19 lockdown: Railways ferried 450,000 Indians in 428 special trains

Western Railways has operated a total of 191 Shramik Special ferrying over 225,000 migrants

Covid-19 lockdown: Passenger trains to be back on tracks from Tuesday

Initially 15 set of trains will be started and online bookings for these will begin from 4 pm on Monday

20 coaches of Shramik special train get detached from engine near Jabalpur

According to the Railways, the coaches were reattached and the train resumed its journey

Over 360,000 migrants ferried in 350 Shramik trains so far: Railways

While 263 trains have already reached their destinations, 87 are still on the run. Forty-six more trains are in the pipeline

Long walk home ends in tragedy: Goods train mows down 16 migrants

Migrants fell asleep on railway track in Maharashtra

15 migrant workers run over by train while resting on their way back home

However, it is yet not clear from where this group hailed and where they were going

Karnataka govt takes U-turn, deploys trains to take migrant workers home

On Thursday, the government wrote to Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Odisha seeking consent for receiving the workers

A first: Shramik train with 1,050 leaves from Delhi railway station

The New Delhi railway station is the second busiest station in the country with a daily footfall of over 500,000 a day in normal times, but today was different

Railways on the home run: How the transporter is ferrying 10 mn workers

Ferrying migrant workers back to their states would be the largest special service by any railway network in the world in one go. Here's how the transporter manages it

Karnataka cancels special trains for migrants after CM meets builders

The state government has been collecting railway fares from the migrants and every worker had to pay for both train and bus service to reach station in advance

Coronavirus outbreak pulls down rail freight traffic to historic low

Data shows freight traffic and earnings are down for the first time in 18 yrs

Bihar got most workers in special trains, West Bengal the least: Data

TMC MP and leader of the party in Rajya Sabha, Derek O'Brien, however, said the West Bengal government was doing "all it takes" to fight the Covid pandemic, and accused the Centre of playing politics