56 new expresses, 9 Durontos on anvil

Feb 26, 2011 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

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Railway Budget

Railway minister Mamata Banerjee announced 56 new express trains in Railway Budget 2011-12. Apart from these express trains several other new trains, like nine Duranto trains, two double-decker AC trains and three Shatabdi trains were also announced.

The new Shatabdi Express will link Pune-Secunderabad, Jaipur-Agra and Ludhiana-Delhi while the AC double-decker services are proposed on Jaipur-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai routes.
The Duronto trains are Allahabad-Mumbai AC (bi-weekly), Pune-Ahmedabad AC (tri-weekly), Sealdah-Puri non-AC (tri-weekly), Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam AC (tri-weekly), Madurai-Chennai AC (bi-weekly), Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram AC (bi-weekly), Mumbai Central-New Delhi AC (bi-weekly), Nizamuddin-Ajmer non-AC (bi-weekly) and Shalimar-Patna (tri-weekly).
The minister also introduced four trains called “Vivek Express” to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. These will be introduced on Dibrugarh-Thiruvantharam-Kanyakumari Express (weekly) via Kokrajhar, Dwarka-Tuticorin Express (weekly) via Wadi, Howrah-Mangalore Express (weekly) via Palghat and Bandra (T)-Jammu Tawi Express (weekly) via Marwar-Degana-Ratangarh-Jakhal-Ludhiana. Four “Kavi Guru Express” services for a similar anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore have been proposed.
These will be on routes of Howrah-Azimganj Express (daily) via Sagardighi, Guwahati-Jaipur Express (weekly) via Kasganj-Faizabad-Gorakhpur-Kokrajhar, Howrah-Bolpur Express (daily) and Howrah-Porbandar Express (weekly).
A new set of trains has also been proposed to connect state capitals with important towns and cities of the state. The minister also proposed to launch special tourist trains called Janam Bhoomi Gaurav.

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