Platform ticket rate: Indian Railways has decided to hike the price of platform tickets at a select number of stations in Mumbai Central Division to avoid crowding.
Maharashtra govt decided to allow daily tickets for people who are fully vaccinated and permitted them to travel in local trains along with passenger trains.
Currently, Central Railway and Western Railway are operating 1,702 and 1,304 suburban services, respectively, which is 95.70 per cent of the total suburban services in the normal period.
The landslides took place on Friday morning in the ghat (hilly) section of Hubballi division of SWR- between Dudhsagar and Sonaulim, and between Caranzol and Dudhsagar.
Keeping in view the growing number of Covid cases across the country, the Indian Railways has provided 20 coaches to Maharashtra's Nandurbar district.
Western Railways to operate three additional weekly special trains between Bandra Terminus-Barauni Junction and Subedarganj, Surat-Hatia, and Udhna-Chhapra stations.
The Western Railway is currently running its passenger trains as special trains in view of the COVID-19 guidelines, and only passengers having reserved tickets are allowed to travel.
The Western Railway's PRO has appealed to all passengers to follow the Covid-19 protocol when in the station or onboard the trains to combat the virus and ensure smooth operations of trains.
The Western Railways has diverted and short terminated several trains amid the ongoing farmers' agitation in Punjab, against the three recently enacted farm Acts.
A day after Railway Minister Piyush Goyal allowed all women passengers to travel in local trains in Mumbai, the Western Railway on Wednesday added four 'ladies special' trains on its suburban network.
The Western Railway has decided to run additional 194 special services, including 10 AC trains, from October 15 to reduce overcrowding on local trains in Mumbai.
When the Yamraj spots a person in a no-man area, he carries him on his back and lands him in a safer area.
He said 2,631 cases of littering and spitting were detected till September 19.
The Western Railways has informed that the local train service from Lower Parel to Churchgate would be affected for 11 hours due to the shutdown and most long-distance trains would terminate at Dadar instead of Mumbai Central railway station.
The truck driver, who rammed into a manned level crossing between Godhra & Ratlam and hit Trivandrum Rajdhani train at 6:44 am today, has been killed in the incident.
In a statement, the Western Railways said, that, as part of the introductory offer that has been extended by six months the base fare for a single journey would continue to be 1.2 times that of the corresponding First Class fare.
Western Railway on Wednesday said that total earnings in the last quarter (July-September) was Rs 233 crore, and that the occupancy in that period was 100 per cent.
The RTI query by Mumbai activist Anil Giglani has revealed that over 40 per cent of seats on all the trains on this sector go vacant causing huge losses to Western Railway.
At least 22 commuters were killed and 39 others injured when a horrific stampede broke out on a narrow railway foot overbridge linking Elphinstone Road and Parel stations.
The tragedy took place yesterday around 10.40 am when the overbridge, linking Elphinstone Road and Parel suburban stations, became overcrowded with people taking shelter from a heavy downpour.
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