15 passenger trains from tomorrow

New Delhi, May 10

The Indian Railways will gradually restart passenger train operations from May 12, initially with 15 pairs of trains, the national transporter said on Sunday.

These trains will be run as special trains from New Delhi station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi. After the resumption of these 15 services, the Railways will start more special services on new routes, based on availability of coaches after reserving 20,000 coaches for Covid-19 care centres and adequate numbers to enable operation of up to 300 trains everyday as “Shramik Special” for stranded migrants.

Reservation booking for these trains will start at 4 pm on May 11 and will be available only on the IRCTC website (https://www.irctc.co.in/). — PTI