With a view to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, Indian Railways (IR) discontinued all regular passenger carrying trains w.e.f. 23rd March,2020 and presently only special trains keeping in view the concerns and suggestions of State Government are being operated. However, in its endeavour to rationalize time tables and speed up of trains, which are on-going exercises and which are dependent inter alia on factors like availability/upgradation of track, doubling of section, upgradation of rolling stock, Indian Railways, has decided to speed up both Passenger and Express train services, thereby upgrading them as Express and superfast services respectively. The Zone-wise details are as under:
|
Sl
|
Zonal Railway
|
Number of trains ( in single)
|
|
1
|
North Central Railway
|
10
|
|
2
|
Central Railway
|
50
|
|
3
|
Eastern Railway
|
16
|
|
4
|
Northern Railway
|
26
|
|
5
|
North Eastern Railway
|
12
|
|
6
|
Northeast Frontier Railway
|
20
|
|
7
|
Southern Railway
|
42
|
|
8
|
South Central Railway
|
59
|
|
9
|
South Eastern Railway
|
36
|
|
10
|
Western Railway
|
68
|
|
11
|
East Central Railway
|
12
|
|
12
|
North Western Railway
|
53
|
|
13
|
East Coast Railway
|
24
|
|
14
|
South Western Railway
|
34
|
|
15
|
West Central Railway
|
12
|
|
16
|
South East Central Railway
|
08
|
|
17
|
Konkan Railway Corporation Limited
|
06
|
This information was given by the Minister of Railways, Commerce & Industry and Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Shri Piyush Goyal in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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