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  Railway minister launches next gen e-ticketing system: 7,200 tickets per minute

  India | August 13, 2014 23:20 IST

  New Delhi: The long and irritating experiences of booking train ticket through IRCTC website seems to be a thing of past now as the railways on Wednesday launched the next generation e-ticketing system enhancing the

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  Nine rail corridors to have 160-200 km per hour speed

  India | July 25, 2014 17:56 IST

  New Delhi: Railways has identified nine corridors for taking action to raise the speed of passenger trains to 160-200 kmph, the Rajya Sabha was told today.The routes are Delhi-Agra, Delhi-Chandigarh, Delhi-Kanpur, Nagpur-Bilaspur, Mysore-Bengaluru-Chennai, Mumbai-Goa, Mumbai-Ahmedabad,

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  High speed rail coaches to be rolled out in Sept end

  India | July 09, 2014 23:54 IST

  Kapurthala: A day after Railway Budget was presented in Parliament, Kapurthala based Rail Coach Factory (RCF) today said it will roll out first rake of coaches, capable of running at a high speed of 160

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  Partial rollback: Rail fare hike not to apply on suburban travel upto 80 kms

  India | June 24, 2014 21:42 IST

  New Delhi: In a partial rollback, the Railways today announced that the recent hike of 14.2 per cent in passenger fares will not apply to second class suburban journey upto 80 kms, a decision that

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  Railway passengers to pay revised fares

  India | June 20, 2014 23:42 IST

  New Delhi: Railways, which hiked passenger fares by 14.2 per cent from June 25, today said those who have purchased tickets earlier at pre-revised rates, will have to pay the differences either at booking offices

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  Fare hike inclusive of Fuel Adjustment Component: Railways

  India | June 20, 2014 23:18 IST

  New Delhi: Faced with criticism of effecting a steep hike, the Railways clarified late in the evening that the increase was only 10 per cent in passenger fare and 5 per cent in freight charges.It