New Delhi: Indian Railways has announced 89 special train services over the next three days to manage the surge in passenger traffic triggered by winter travel, widespread flight cancellations and increased demand across major routes. The additional services, comprising more than 100 trips, will operate across multiple railway zones to ensure smoother travel and adequate connectivity during the high-demand period.
Central Railway will operate 14 special services, including Pune-Bengaluru-Pune (01413/01414) on 6 and 7 December, Pune-Hazrat Nizamuddin-Pune (01409/01410) on 7 and 9 December, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Madgaon-LTT (01019/01020) on 7 and 8 December, CSMT-Hazrat Nizamuddin-CSMT (01077/01078) on 6 and 7 December, LTT-Lucknow-LTT (01015/01016) on 6 and 7 December, Nagpur-CSMT-Nagpur (01012/01011) on 6 and 7 December, Gorakhpur-LTT-Gorakhpur (05587/05588) on 7 and 9 December, and Bilaspur-LTT-Bilaspur (08245/08246) on 10 and 12 December.
South Eastern Railway will run additional trains to ease the rush following recent flight cancellations. These include Santragachi-Yelahanka-Santragachi (08073/08074) with departures on 7 and 9 December, Howrah-CSMT-Howrah Special (02870/02869) with departures on 6 and 8 December, and Cherlapalli-Shalimar-Cherlapalli (07148/07149) scheduled for 6 and 8 December.
South Central Railway will operate three special services from 6 December: Cherlapalli-Shalimar (07148), Secunderabad-Chennai Egmore (07146), and Hyderabad-Mumbai LTT (07150), all departing today.
Eastern Railway will run Howrah-New Delhi-Howrah Special (03009/03010) with departures on 6 and 8 December, and Sealdah-LTT-Sealdah Special (03127/03128) with departures on 6 and 9 December.
Western Railway has planned seven special trains to meet increased travel demand. These include Mumbai Central-Bhiwani Superfast Special (09001/09002), running twice a week between 9 and 30 December; Mumbai Central-Shakur Basti Superfast Special (09003/09004), operating daily with exclusions; and Bandra Terminus-Durgapura Superfast Special (09730/09729) running on 8 and 7 December.
Additional services will run from Gorakhpur, including Gorakhpur-Anand Vihar Terminal-Gorakhpur (05591/05592) on 7, 8 and 9 December, and Gorakhpur-LTT-Gorakhpur (05587/05588) on 7 and 9 December.
East Central Railway will operate Patna-Anand Vihar Terminal-Patna (02309/02310) on 6–9 December, Patna-Anand Vihar Terminal-Patna (02395/02396) on 7 and 8 December, and Darbhanga-Anand Vihar Terminal-Darbhanga (05563/05564) on 7 and 9 December.
North Western Railway will run Hisar-Khadki-Hisar (04725/04726) and Durgapura-Bandra Terminus-Durgapura (09729/09730) on 7 and 8 December.
North Central Railway will operate Prayagraj-New Delhi-Prayagraj specials, with Train 02417 departing on 6 and 8 December and Train 02418 returning on 7 and 9 December. Train 02275 will run on 7 December and return as 02276 on 8 December.
Northern Railway will run the New Delhi-Shaheed Captain Tushar Mahajan Udhampur Vande Bharat (02439/02440) on 6 December, New Delhi-Mumbai Central (04002/04001) on 6 and 7 December, and Hazrat Nizamuddin-Thiruvananthapuram Central (04080) on 6 December. South Central Railway will also run train 07703 Chalipalli-Jalimar on 7 December.
A special Durg-Hazrat Nizamuddin service will operate with Train 08760 departing Durg on 7 December and Train 08761 returning on 8 December. (Agencies)
