Northeast Frontier Railway resumes passenger train services

GUWAHATI: Passenger train services throughout the Indian Railways started from Monday with the beginning of operations of 200 passenger trains (100 pairs). Booking of all these trains had commenced on May 21. Around 26 lakh passengers booked for advance reservation period June 1 to June 30.

These are fully reserved trains having both AC and Non AC classes. General (GS) coaches have reserved sitting accommodation. These special train services are in addition to the existing Shramik Special Trains being run since May 1 and Passenger Special AC trains (30 trains) being run since May 12. Stoppages have been decided in consultation with respective State Governments.

In the NFR area out of six special trains, three started on Monday. These are 1) 02067 / 02068 Guwahati – Jorhat Town Janshatabdi Express (special), 2) 05955 Dibrugarh - Delhi Brahmaputra Mail (special), 3) 05483 Alipurduar Jn - Delhi Mahananda Express (special).

Other special trains namely, 05646 Guwahati – Lokmanyatilak Express (special), will start from Guwahati w.e.f. 03-06-2020. 02377 Sealdah – New Alipurduar Padatik Express (special) will start from sealdah today and 02378 New Alipurduar - Sealdah Padatik Express (special) will start from New Alipurduar w.e.f. 02.06.2020. And train no 02408 Amritsar – New Jalpaiguri Karmabhumi Express (special) will start from Amritsar on 05.06.2020 and 02407 New Jalpaiguri – Amritsar Karmabhumi Express (special) will start from New Jalpaiguri w.e.f. 10.06.2020.

All these trains are being run as per timings of public time table and following the normal route to their respective destinations.

02067 Guwahati – Jorhat Town Janshatabdi Express (special) on Monday left Guwahati station on time with passengers on board after a long period of more than two months. All passengers were found to be very happy on being able to make train journey again. 05483 Alipurduar – Delhi Mahananda Express (special) also left Alipurduar Jn station with hundreds of passengers. 05955 Dibrugarh – Delhi Brahmaputra Mail (Special) will also start today from Dibrugarh on Monday.