Festival Special Weekly Trains to Shirdi from Railways.

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Central Railways will run Festival Special Trains to Shirdi.Mumbai | Sunday, Aug 16 2009 IST Central Railway (CR) will run 218 Festival special trains between Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) to Karwar / Nagpur / Sainagar Shirdi and Dadar-Varanasi to clear the extra rush of passengers during the ensuing festival season. Mumbai-Sainagar Shirdi-Mumbai Weekly Special will run from August 21, 2009 to Octomber 31,2009Departure: CST,Mumbai - Special train 0117 will leave CST at 22:20 pm on every Friday from 21 August`09 to 30 October`09 Arrival at Sainagar,Shirdi - At 05:00 hrs next day. Departure: Shirdi - Special train 0118 will leave Sainagar at 07:30 on every Saturday from 22 August`09 to 31 October`09 Arrival at CST,Mumbai - At 14:25 hours same day.Other Festival Special Trains - On Mumbai-Karwar routes 46 tri-weekly special trains will run between September seven and October 29. The 0121 special train

will leave CST on every Monday, Wednesday, Saturday from September 7 to October 28 at 2215 hrs and arrive Karwar at 1330 hrs next day. 0122 special train will leave Karwar on every Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday from September 8,2009 to October 29,2009 at 1530 hours and arrive CST at 0615 hours next day. Mumbai-Nagpur-Mumbai superfast tri-weekly will run from September 24 and October 30, 2009. 0129 special train will leave CST on every Sunday, Tuesday, Thusday from September 24 to October 29 at 2215 hours and will arrive Nagpur at 0745 hours next day. 0130 special train would leave Nagpur on every Monday, Wednesday, Friday from Sept 25,2009 to October 30,2009 at 2025 hours and will arrive CST at 0755 hours next day.Varanasi-Dadar superfast special trains will run between Septmber 11,2009 and October 31,2009. 0125 special train will leave Dadar

daily from September 11 to 30 at 0035 hrs and will arrive Varanasi at 1530 hrs next day. Ahmedabad-Pune weekly special will run between September 4th, 2009 and October 30,2009. 0149 special train will leave Pune on every Thursday at 1520 hrs and will arrive Ahmedabad at 1600 hrs next day. 0150 special train will leave Ahmedabad on every Friday from September 4th,2009 to October 30,2009 at1410 hrs and will arrive Pune at 1645 hrs next day, the release added,Source - http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20090816/1319986.htmlSanction of Train service brings CheerAndhra Pradesh S. Harpal SinghPlea to run Bangalore-New Delhi train through Adilabad. & Extension of Nanded-Daund passenger to Adilabad sought.ADILABAD: The sanction of a weekly train between Kolhapur and Nagpur cities in Maharashtra via Adilabad has brought some cheer to those who want more number of trains to be run on this track. Re-routing of some long distance trains through Adilabad on Thursday due to the Ramagundam railway station accident is being quoted by activists as the rationale for meeting such a demand.Based on diversion of the trains, S.P. Pataskar, a retired government employee, contends that the line passing through Adilabad can handle heavy traffic though it has been inaugurated comparatively recently. He has represented to the South Central Railway (SCR) to run the Bangalore-New Delhi (via Kachiguda) train

through Adilabad.Linking Delhi-“If this train is run through Adilabad, it will connect Mahabubnagar, Nizamabad and Adilabad to New Delhi. None of these districts is directly connected with the country’s capital,†he points out.Among other trains, the activist has also represented for scrapping the present 553-554 Nanded-Adilabad passenger and extending the Nanded-Daund passenger to Adilabad instead. He says pilgrims bound for Shirdi town in Maharashtra will get to travel directly to the holy place and at a much cheaper cost.Meanwhile, the locally well-known Dokwal family pitched in its support to provide drinking water and refreshments to passengers of trains that were diverted through Adilabad. The trains were diverted from Majri railway station on the main line, about 80 km from here.The SCR and the

Central Railway, Nagpur, had to provide diesel engines for the trains to run on this line, which is not electrified. This is the second time within one year that trunk line trains have been rerouted through Adilabad.The trains that were rerouted through Adilabad were Hazrat Nizamuddin - Coimbatore Express, Hazrat Nizamuddin - Tirupati Sampark Kranti, New Delhi -Trivandrum Kerala Express, Hazrat Nizamuddin - Chennai Rajdhani Express, the Hyderabad - New Delhi AP Express and Bangalore-Hazrat Nizamuddin Rajdhani Express.Source - http://www.thehindu.com/2009/08/15/stories/2009081558680300.htmCentral Railway commissions network-based ProgrammeSaturday, Aug 15 2009 IST Mumbai - To mark the 63rd Independence Day celebrations, the Central Railway today commissioned network-based computer programme for effective monitoring of SMS-based feedback system besides opening a lift at the CST main terminus for long distance trains.Speaking on the occasion, CR Additional General Manager Vinay Mittal said Central Railway has performed extremely well in the first quarter of the current fiscal by registering a growth in passenger as well as freight traffic. He said during the period from April 2008 to June 2009, the originating earnings of Central Railway have improved to Rs 1614 crore as compared to Rs 1504 crore achieved during the corresponding period of the last fiscal showing an improvement of 7 per cent. All the departments of CR have immensely contributed towards achieving

an excellent all-round performance during 2008-09. CR could achieve originating loading of 54.06 MT despite the global recession and reduction of demand from trade. Wagon turn round improved from 1.97 days in 2007-08 to 1.88 days in 2008-09. He said the Coaching Operation of Central Railway created a new record in Indian Railways by running 1963 special trains during 2008-09 as compared to 773 special trains during 2007-08.From April to June 2009, Central Railway achieved 97.9 per cent punctuality of Mail/Express trains as compared to 96.5 per cent achieved during the corresponding period of previous year.Commercial Department also achieved record ticket checking earnings of Rs 14.51 crore during April to June 2009 as against Rs 12.24 crore achieved during the corresponding period of last year registering an increase of 19 per cent.With a view to provide cleaner linen to passengers, an in-house laundry is being set up at Wadi

Bunder as a pilot project.The major works completed were Puntamba-Shirdi New Broad Gauge line and Turbhe-Nerul double line corridor during 2009. Gauge conversion work of Osmanabad-Kurduwadi section was completed on October 19, 2008. The other important construction projects in progress include Kurla-Thane fifth and sixth line, Miraj-Pandharpur gauge conversion, and CSTM to Kalyan 'Train Describer System'.During 2008-09, Central Railway achieved a new record by selling scrap worth Rs 250.12 crore, which is 16.4 per cent higher as compared to the sale of scrap during 2007-08.Referring to the on board house-keeping services introduced in five trains, he said since this service was widely appreciated, Central Railway will expand this service in 40 other trains soon. On suburban services he said the number of services in Mumbai division had been enhanced to 1412 from

1356.Source - http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-93298.htmlburNiNg-hOtmAiL.com - rOhit beHaL

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