The Sealdah division has decided to cancel around 108 local EMU trains altogether on two days for commissioning of the Hot Standby Dual Visual Display Unit Electronic Interlocking system with two VDU-monitors at Ballygunge Junction and Kankurgachi Road Junction.
The Indian Railways has achieved a significant milestone by upgrading more than 23,000 track kilometres (TKM) of the railways' network to support train speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour (kmph), an official said on Monday.
The dense fog that enveloped Delhi in the early morning on Friday resulted in the delay of several trains and flights as the weather department issued a yellow alert for Saturday.
The journey time between Kolkata and Delhi is expected to be reduced considerably in the near future.
Railways has made preparations to run around3000 special trains during the the Mahakumbh at Prayagraj starting from coming mid-January . The Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnav informed about this to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath through a letter, officials here on Friday said .
All trains originating from Secunderabad or passing through the station were cancelled following violent protest by hundreds of youth against the Central government's new army recruitment policy "Agnipath".
The Hyderabad Metro Rail has suspended services on all three routes till further notice in view of violence.
Aspirants agitating against Agnipath, the central government's new recruitment policy for the armed forces, went on a rampage at the BJP's Nawada office and destroyed several properties
MLA Sudama Prasad, who took to the streets in Ara, said that inflation was sky high, which was the effect of the three agricultural laws. He said that there would be food insecurity if farming went into the hands of industrialists.
The official said that the loco pilot of the locomotive will not face any problem as there will be no change in the driving console.
