East Coast Railway to run five more special trains to clear rush
BHUBANESWAR: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run five more inter-state special trains to clear rush during winter season.
These trains will run towards Yesvantpur and Howrah from Puri, towards Kacheguda and LTT from Visakhapatnam and between Nanded and Sambalpur. These special trains will run from the second week of January and continue till further advice.
Puri-Howrah-Puri Special (02088/02087) will leave Puri on every Tuesday at 9.30pm with effect from January 12. It’s return train will leave Howrah on every Thursday at 11.15am starting from January 14.
Puri-Yesvantpur-Puri Special (02063/02064) will leave Puri on every Sunday at 12.10pm with effect from January 10. It’s return train will originate from Yesvantpur on every Monday at 10.25am starting from January 11.
Sambalpur-Nanded-Sambalpur Special (02085/02086) will start it’s journey from Sambalpur on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 11am with effect from January 11. It’s pairing train will originate from Nanded on every Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Tuesday at 2.45pm starting from January 14.
Similarly, Visakhapatnam-Kacheguda-Visakhapatnam Special (08561/08562) and Visakhapatnam-LTT-Visakhapatnam Special (08519/08520) will originate from Visakhapatnam with effect from January 14.
Recently, the ECoR has already announced to run six special trains from its jurisdiction starting from second week of this month till further advice.
These trains were- Bhubaneswar-Pune-Bhubaneswar Special Train, Bhubaneswar-Tirupati-Bhubaneswar Special, Visakhapatnam-Sai Nagar Shirdi-Visakhapatnam Special, Visakhapatnam-Kollam-Visakhapatnam Special, Visakhapatnam-Chennai Central-Visakhapatnam Special and Sambalpur-Jammu Tawi-Sambalpur Special Trains. Now, 34 pairs of Special Trains are running from ECoR jurisdiction apart from the festival Special Trains.
People travel to different tourist places in the winter season. Running of these 11 additional special trains will help these people, said the railway sources.