The New time Table of All India Railway
known as “TRAINS AT AGLANCE (TAG)” has come into effect from 1st July,
2011. In addition to this All India Time table, all the 17 zonal
Railways have also released their zonal railway time tables which too have come
into effect from 1st July, 2011. This Time Table includes the
new class of trains which were announced in this year’s Railway Budget namely,
Double Decker AC trains, Vivek Express, Kavi Guru Express
and Rajya Rani Express.
The salient features of the All India
Railway Time Table i.e. TAG are as under :
1. Encouraged
by the public response over the past few years all the user-friendly features
of Trains at a Glance viz. how to read a table, route map, station index, trains
between important stations, station code index, Train number
index, Train name index, has been retained.
2. Five
digit numbering scheme for train services has come into force from 20th December,
2010. This has been necessitated as the numbers in four digit numbering scheme
got exhausted as also to enable capture of all types of passenger train
services viz. Duronto, Rajdhani, Shatabdi, and other
Mail/Express services, sub-urban, holiday specials, etc. on Indian Railways.
The five-digit train numbering has been accordingly indicated in Trains at a
Glance.
3. Colour coding scheme adopted for
various categories of trains: (a) Pink for Rajdhani Express, Shatabdi Express,
Jan Shatabdi Express, Garib Rath Express and Duronto
Express (b) Yellow for Double Decker services and other superfast trains
(d) blue/white for other mail/Express trains.
4. New category of services viz. Double
Decker services, Rajya Rani services, Vivek Express,Kavi Guru
Express have been included.
5. Commercial information of passenger use
and interest viz. advance reservation period, reservation through internet,
refund rules and rail travel concessions have been suitably updated. New
addition to the fare chart is the fare for AC and mixed type of Duronto
services.
6. Information regarding Vigilance
organization, Public grievance machinery, disaster management and catering
services have been incorporated.
7. The Metro Railway, Kolkata has
been added in the list of Zonal railways. The website addresses of all Zonal
railways have been added this time.
· Budget
announcements: The details of all the train services announced and
which have been incorporated in the Trains at a Glance are as under:
Name
of services
|
No. of service
|
· Duronto
Services
|
09
|
· Double
Decker AC
|
02
|
· Shatabdi
|
03
|
· Kavi guru
Express
|
04
|
· Vivek Express
|
04
|
· Rajya Rani Express
|
10
|
· Express
services
|
57
|
Category-wise
details:
A) Duronto trains: Duronto Train services were
conceptualized in the year 2009-2010. At present 23 pairs of Duronto services
are operational. In this year’s Railway Budget 09 pairs of Duronto
services have been proposed, which are as under:
1. Allahabad-Mumbai
AC Duronto (bi-weekly)
2. Pune- Ahmedabad AC
Duronto (tri-weekly)
3. Sealdah – Puri non
AC Duronto (tri-weekly)
4. Secunderabad- Visakhapatnam AC
Duronto (Tri-weekly)
5. Madurai-
Chennai AC Duronto (Bi-weekly)
6. Chennai
- Thiruvananthapuram AC Duronto (Bi-weekly)
7. Mumbai
Central- New Delhi AC Duronto (Bi-weekly)
8. Nizamuddin-Ajmer non-AC
Duronto(Bi-weekly)
9. Shalimar
– Patna Duronto (Tri-weekly)
B) Double Decker AC:
1. Jaipur-
Delhi
2. Ahmedabad-Mumbai
C) Shatabdi Express:
1. Pune -Secunderabad
2. Jaipur-Agra
3. Ludhiana – Delhi
D) Vivek Express: To mark the
150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda which will be celebrated in 2013,
“Vivek Express” are being proposed as under:
1. Dibrugarh- Thiruvanthapuram-Kanniyakumari Express
(weekly) via
2. Kokrajhar
3. Dwarka-Tuticorin Express
(weekly) via Wadi
4. Howrah-Mangalore
Express (Weekly) via Palghat
5. Bandra (T)- Jammu Tawi Express
(Weekly) via Marwar-Degana- Ratangarh-
6. Jakhal-
Ludhiana
E) Kavi Guru Express: As a homage to
the great poet Kavi Guru Ravindra Nath Tagore, it is
proposed to run the following Kavi Guru Express trains:
1. Howrah-Azimganj Express
(daily) via Sagardighi
2. Guwahati- Jaipur Express
(weekly)
3. Howrah-Bolpur Express
(daily)
4. Howrah-Porbander Express
(weekly)
F) Rajya Rani Express: A new set of trains
connecting state capitals with important cities/towns in those states are as
under:
1. Sawantwadi Road -
Mumbai Express (daily)
2. Saharsa - Patna Intercity
Express (daily)
3. Meerut- Lucknow Intercity
Express (daily)
4. Mysore - Bangalore Express
(daily)
5. Damoh -
Bhopal Intercity Express (daily)
6. Silghat – Dhubri Intercity
Express (tri-weekly via Guwahati – Kokrajhar -Jogighopa)
7. Bankura – Howrah Express
(tri-weekly)
8. Nilambur Road – Thiruvananthapuram Link
Express (daily)
9. Jharsuguda – Bhubaneswar Express
(tri-weekly)
10. Manmad –
Mumbai Express (daily) via Nasik
For detailed time table and
trains schedule contact Indian Railways website, Zonal Railways website or
nearest railway station
