Bhopal. The festive season has started with Shardiya Navratri. The great festivals of Dussehra and Diwali are also coming. In such a situation, Railways has decided to run festival special trains to reduce the extra load of passengers in trains. Let us tell you that the Railway Ministry has announced to run 400 festival special trains. About 24 trains will pass through Bhopal division taking halts at stations like Bhopal, Itarsi, Rani Kamlapati.
To clear the extra passenger traffic during the festive season and for the convenience of the passengers, the railway administration is running a special train between Pune and Gorakhpur. Out of these, about 54 special trains will travel from West-Central Railway Zone to Gorakhpur, Pratapgarh, Lucknow in North India apart from LTT, Mumbai CSMT, Pune, Bengaluru, Prayagraj and some places in Bihar.
up to one and a half times more fare
The fare in the festival special trains run by the Railways is about one and a half times that of regular trains, but people will be forced to take the help of these festival special trains in view of the long waiting time in regular trains.
Pune Gorakhpur special train halted
Train number 01415/01416, this special train running in 21-21 trips between Pune-Gorakhpur-Pune will have halts at Bhopal, Itarsi and Bina stations of Bhopal Railway Division. Train number 01415 Pune-Gorakhpur special train will depart from Pune station at 6:50 am every day from October 22 to November 11, reach Bhopal at 11:15 pm and reach Gorakhpur station at 4 pm the next evening. Similarly, train number 01416 Gorakhpur-Pune special train will depart from Gorakhpur station at 5:30 pm every day from October 23 to November 12 and will reach Bhopal at 10:05 am the next day and Pune station at 3:15 pm.
The train was halted at these stations
Train number 01415/01416 Pune-Gorakhpur-Pune will stop at Ahmednagar, Manmad, Bhusaval, Khandwa, Itarsi, Bhopal, Bina, Veerangana Laxmibai Jhansi, Kanpur Central, Lucknow, Gonda and Basti stations in both directions.
Tags: Bhopal news, Festival Special Trains, Local18
FIRST PUBLISHED: October 8, 2024, 18:18 IST