With
a view to clear extra rush of passengers during winter season, South Eastern
Railway has made elaborate arrangement by running special trains towards
different directions and augmentation of a number of important mail/express
trains including Duronto. Meanwhile, 26 pairs of Winter specials towards
different directions are running viz. Santragachi-Chennai Special (5 pairs),
Santragachi-Mumbai Special (3 pairs), Ranchi-Katihar Special (9 pairs),
Hatia-Visakhapatnam Special (5 pairs) andHatia-Yesvantpur Special (4 pairs)
during the period from 2nd December, 2012 to 1st January, 2013. This apart, 15
pairs of mail/express trains including Duronto Express trains have been
augmented by attaching extra coaches during the period from 1st December, 2012
to 2nd January, 2013.
SPECIAL
TRAINS DURING WINTER
Santragachi-Chennai
Central weekly superfast special trains (08041) leaving Santragachi every
Sunday at 12.30 hrs. will reach Chennai Central at 17.00 hrs., the next day. In
the return direction, the Chennai Central-Santragachi superfast special train
(08042) departing Chennai Central every Tuesday at 11.00 hrs. will arrive
Santragachi at 14.15 hrs. the next day. This Special train is running during
the period from 2nd December, 2012 to 1st January, 2013
Santragachi-Mumbai(LTT)
weekly superfast special train(08070) leaving Santragachi every Sunday at 16.05
hrs. will reach Mumbai (LTT) at 23.45 hrs. the next day. In the return
direction the Mumbai(LTT) –Santragachi superfast special train (08069) leaving
Mumbai(LTT) at 11.25 hrs.every Tuesday will arrive Santragachi at 19.15 hrs.,
the next day. This Special train is running during the period from 2nd December
to 18th December, 2012.
Ranchi-Katihar
Bi-weekly special train(08631) leaving Ranchievery Wednesday and Sunday at
14.05 hrs. will reach Katihar at 06.45 hrs., the next day. In the return
direction, Katihar-Ranchi Bi-weekly special train(08632) leaving Katihar every
Thursday and Monday at 14.00 hrs. will reach Ranchi at 05.35 hrs., the next
day. This Special train is running during the period from 2nd December to 31st
December, 2012.
Hatia-Visakhapatnam
weekly special train (08637) departing Hatia at 18.20 hrs. every Monday will
reach Visakhapatnam, the next day at 09.45 hrs. In the return direction,
Visakhapatnam-Hatia weekly special train (08638) leaving Visakhapatnam at 14.25
hrs. every Tuesday will reach Hatia, the next day at 05.45 hrs. This Special
train is running during the period from 3rd December, 2012 to 1st January,
2013.
Hatia-Yesvantpur
weekly special train (08635) leaving Hatia at 09.40 hrs. every Thursday will
reach Yesvantpur at 22.00 hrs., the next day. In the return direction,
Yesvantpur-Hatia weekly special train (08636) leaving Yesvantpur at 08.30 hrs
every Saturday will reach Hatia at 21.30 hrs., the next day. This Special train
will be runningduring the period from 6th December to 29th December, 2012.
AUGMENTATION
OFMAIL/EXPRESS INCLUDING DURONTO TRAINS
15
pairs of mail/express including Duronto Express trains havebeen augmented by
attaching extra AC-2 Tier, AC-3 Tier, Sleeper Class and /or General 2nd Class
Coaches during the period from 1st December, 2012 to 2nd January, 2013 to clear
extra rush of passengers during winter. The mail/express train including
Duronto trains which have been augmented are 12262/12261 Howrah-Mumbai Duronto
Express, 12222/12221 Howrah-Pune Duronto Express, 12245/12246 Howrah-Yesvantpur
Duronto Express, 22825/22826 Shalimar-Chennai Central Express, 18009/18010
Santragachi-Ajmer Express, 22851/22852 Santragachi-Mangalore Vivek Express,
22817/22818 Howrah-Mysore Express, 22849/22850 Shalimar-Secunderabad Express,
12867/12868 Howrah-Puducherry Express, 12130/12129 Howrah-Pune Azad Hind
Express, 18189/18190 Tatanagar-Rourkela-Alappuzha Link Express, 18103/18104
Tatanagar-Amritsar Jalianwalabag Express, 12889/12890 Tatanagar-Yesvantpur
Express, 18181/18182 Tatanagar-Katihar Express and 18101/18102 Tatanagar-Jammu
Tawi Express
