Page 3 - Special Trains

Covid-19 impact: All regular trains cancelled till August 12, says railways

Source said that the decision was taken keeping in mind the increasing number of coronavirus cases in the country

Story in numbers: Job hunt, marriage major driver of internal migration

Between 2001 and 2011, while the population grew by 18%, the number of migrants jumped 45%

Railways receive requests for 63 Shramik Special trains from 7 states

Of the total, a maximum of 32 trains will depart from Kerala while the destinations of most trains will be West Bengal (23), followed by Bihar (10), Assam (5)

SC mulls giving 15 days to Centre, states to transport all migrant workers

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said state governments can tell as to how many more migrant workers need to be shifted and how many trains are required for that purpose

200 special train to run from Jun 1; 145,000 passengers to travel on day 1

These services will be in addition to Shramik Special trains and 30 Special AC trains being run since May 12

After flak over Shramik, Rlys says only 71 out of 3,840 trains diverted

Over the past few days, at least nine people lost their lives in different Shramik trains, for which the reasons were allegedly lack of supply of food and water

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Who is feeding migrant workers, paying for their travel, SC asks govt

9.1 million migrant workers taken to their home states till Wednesday during a nationwide lockdown, says government.

Mamata seeks PM's intervention in railways sending Shramik Special trains

The state's infrastructure is "stretched to its limit" following the devastation caused by Cyclone Amphan

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Train ticket booking, refund, tatkal during coronavirus: What you must know

Indian Railways has resumed operations of around 200 trains. All you need to know about the IRCTC special trains, ticket booking, tatkal and refund rules amid coronavirus lockdown

For every positive coronavirus case, 20 negative tests done: ICMR

The government, however, said the mortality rate had remained less than half of the global average of 6.65 per cent.

Railways to restart counter ticket bookings, run more trains soon

500,000 tickets booked in three hours for 200 trains starting on June 1

No consent needed from destination states to run Shramik Specials: Railways

Earlier, a political storm had broken out when Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh were being laggard in approving these trains

Odisha urges Centre to temporarily suspend Shramik trains due to cyclone

Apart from Shramik Special trains, the Indian Railways has also started operating special passenger trains between New Delhi and Bhubaneswar

Indian Railways to start issuing waiting list tickets in special trains

Earlier, the Railways said that no waiting list tickets will be booked and passengers with confirmed tickets will be allowed to board the train

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

Special train ferries migrants from Hyderabad to Jharkhand in lockdown

Those boarded the train were brought from their workplace at IIT-Hyderabad campus little over 30 kms from Lingampally during the previous night

Social distancing must when trains take stranded workers, students home

These special trains will be operated by the Railway Ministry, said Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla

IRCTC inks MoU with Karnataka tourism to market, run Golden Chariot train

The MoU was signed in the presence of Minister of State of Railways, Suresh C Angadi, and Karnataka Tourism Minister C T Ravi, Chairman Railway Board Vinod Kumar Yadav amongst others