The experience with 50 stations and 150 trains should be a learning experience, helping frame sensible rules that are not unfair to new operators and also don't attract criticism, writes T N Ninan
The Tejas Express on Lucknow-Delhi route is the railways' first experience of running a train by non-railway operator, its own subsidiary, IRCTC
Over the years, the railways have electrified high-traffic routes based on the projected rate of return