A list of Gujarat related new trains and announcements in interim budget

Ahmedabad, 12 February 2014

Following are the details of Gujarat related new trains announced in today’s budget speech of Railway minister. The trains in list will either start, end or pass through and stop in Gujarat when functional.

Five Premium Trains:

1. Nizamuddin – Madgaon AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Kota, Vadodara,Vasai Road

2. Yesvantpur – Jaipur AC Express (Weekly) via Gulbarga, Pune, Vasai Road , Vadodara,

3. Ahmedabad – Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express (Tri-weekly) via Palanpur, Ajmer, Rewari

4. Bandra – Amritsar Express (Weekly) Via Vadodara,Kota, New Delhi, Ambala

5. Bandra (T) – Katra Express (Weekly) via Vadodara,Kota, New Delhi, Ambala

Eight Express Trains :

1. Ahmedabad – Katra Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Rewari, Hisar, Bathinda, Amritsar

2. Ahmedabad – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Bandikui, Mathura, Kasganj

3. Ahmedabad – Allahabad Express (Weekly) via Jalgaon, Khandwa, Itarsi, Satna, Manikpur

4. Bandra (T) – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Vadodara,Kota, Mathura, Kasganj

5. Bhavnagar – Bandra Express (Weekly) via Ahmedabad

6. Bhavnagar- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Link Express (Weekly)

7. Gandhidham – Puri Express (Weekly)

8. Kanpur – Bandra (T) Express (Weekly) via Kasganj, Mathura, Kota, Vadodara,

One MEMU Train :

i. Anand – Dakor (Daily 2 services)

One DEMU Train :

i. Morbi – Maliya Miyana

New Lines

1. Dahod – Modasa

Western railway specific announcements

Western Railway Specific

Air-conditioned EMU suburban train services will commence in Mumbai area by July 2014

New trains

A Premium Air-Conditioned Special was introduced on the busy Delhi – Mumbai sector with shorter Advance Reservation Period in December 2013 – January 2014. The fare charged included a dynamically varying premium over tatkal fare of the Rajdhani services. Such dynamic pricing was widely appreciated by the users and the media and gave increased earnings of about 48% as compared to Rajdhani services on the same sector. We are considering operation of this scheme on larger scale.

Premium Trains(5)

1. Bandra (T) – Katra Express (Weekly) via Kota, New Delhi, Ambala

2. Bandra – Amritsar Express (Weekly) Via Kota, New Delhi, Ambala

3. Ahmedabad – Delhi Sarai Rohilla Express (Tri-weekly) via Palanpur, Ajmer, Rewari

4. Nizamuddin – Madgaon AC Express (Bi-weekly) via Kota, Vasai Road

5. Yesvantpur – Jaipur AC Express (Weekly) via Gulbarga, Pune, Vasai Road

Express Trains (9)

1. Bandra (T) – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Kota, Mathura, Kasganj

2. Bandra (T) – Kanpur Express (Weekly) via Kasganj, Mathura, Kota

3. Bandra – Bhavnagar Express (Weekly) via Ahmedabad

4. Ahmedabad – Katra Express (Weekly) Palanpur, Jaipur, Rewari, Hisar, Bathinda, Amritsar

5. Ahmedabad – Lucknow Jn Express (Weekly) via Palanpur, Jaipur, Bandikui, Mathura,Kasganj

6. Ahmedabad – Allahabad Express (Weekly) via Jalgaon, Khandwa, Itarsi, Satna, Manikpur

7. Gandhidham – Puri Express (Weekly)

8. Bhavnagar- Delhi Sarai Rohilla Link Express (Weekly) Gandhidham – Puri Express (Weekly)

9. Thiruvananathapuram-Nizamuddin Express (Bi-weekly) one day via Kottayam and one day via Allepey

MEMU Trains (1)

Anand – Dakor (Daily 2 services)

DEMU Trains (2)

Morbi – Maliya Miyana

Ratlam – Fatehabad Chandrawati Ganj (Daily) after gauge conversion

Projects

·Feasibility Study for High Speed Trains in Mumbai-Ahmedabad Corridor. A joint Feasibility Study for Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed corridor, co-financed by Indian Railways and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has started in December 2013, and will be completed in 18 months. Also a Business Development study being undertaken by French Railways (SNCF) will be completed by April 2014

·Expedition of Dedicated freight Corridor

Surveys proposed

·Dahod – Modasa

·Nimach-Singoli-Kota

Passenger Related

·Upgradation’ scheme extended to AC Chair Car and Executive Chair car passengers

·Proliferation of cash accepting Automatic Ticket Vending Machines

·Ticketing on mobile phones in unreserved segments

·PNR status update to passengers through system generated SMS & an update for train running information

·Online booking of retiring rooms at all important stations

·Online booking of meals on trains for selected en-route stations

Safety

·Manning or elimination of all unmanned level crossings and provision of ROBs/RUBs in lieu of manned level crossings with heavy traffic density in a time bound manner. Towards this end, a total of 5,400 unmanned level crossings were eliminated – 2,310 by manning and 3,090 by closure / merger / construction of ROBs/RUBs during the last five years

·Planning for induction of indigenously developed Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) over Indian Railways after successfully completing field trials

·Development of ‘crashworthy’ structural design capable of absorbing high impact loads in unfortunate case of collision/accidents

·Offering employment to over 1 lakh persons against existing vacancies in Group C categories in the last five years, and to 1.6 lakh persons in erstwhile Group D categories.

·Railways have initiated action to ensure that incidents of Fire are averted at all costs and loss of lives eliminated. A Comprehensive Fire and Smoke Detection System is on trial on two rakes of Rajdhani Express trains. Based on the success of these trials, this will be extended to all major passenger trains

·Various measures undertaken to prevent fire incidents on trains are as under:-

o Use of fire retardant materials inside coaching vehicles;

o Multi-tier protection for electric circuits;

o Provision of portable fire extinguishers in AC coaches, Guard cum-luggage break vans, pantry cars and locomotives;

o Introduction of electrical induction based cooking appliances in replacement of LPG in pantries and

o Intensive checks on parcel vans and Guard-cum-luggage break vans against explosives and inflammable materials

Green Initiatives

·Railway Energy Management Company has become functional and is working on setting up of windmill plants, solar power plants, with about 40% subsidy from Ministry of New & Renewable Energy

·To begin with, 200 railway stations, roof top of 26 buildings and 2,000 level crossing gates would be covered

·Bio-toilet design has been adopted by the railways and the technology has been introduced in about 2,500 coaches. It is proposed to increase the coverage progressively.