In view of the convenience of the passengers and to provide maximum confirmed tickets, Indian Railways is going to start 5 special trains. These special trains started by Western Railway will be started between Mumbai Central to Jaipur, Indore to Puri, Mumbai Central to Indore, Indore to Lingampalli and Mumbai to Hapa. Actually, passengers were facing difficulties in getting confirmed tickets on these routes. Therefore, the Western Railway has announced to run the train on these routes.
All these trains started by Western Railway will be Humsafar Superfast which will run weekly. Booking of the train running between Indore to Puri will begin on Thursday i.e. March 18. Whereas train booking for Indore to Puri will start from Tuesday 23 March. The train from Puri to Indore will leave on 25 March.
For the convenience of passengers, WR to run special train between Indore & Puri station.
Booking of train no 09371 will open from 18th March,2021 at nominated PRS counters and on IRCTC website. pic.twitter.com/FLSOqRNWxJ
— Western Railway (@WesternRly) March 17, 2021
Duronto Express also included
The Duronto Express will be included in trains starting from Mumbai to Indore. This train will run from Mumbai to Indore for two days in a week. This train of Duronto Superfast will stop at Ratlam, Vadodara and Ujjain stations from Mumbai to Indore. At the same time, the train going from Mumbai Central to Jaipur will stop at stations like Vadodara, Ratlam and Sawai Madhopur. This train will run on Saturday and Tuesday.
WR to run special train from Mumbai Central to Indore, Jaipur & Hapa and also between Indore & Lingampalli station.
Booking of train no 09227, 09228, 09231/32 will open from 17th March,2021 and booking for train no 09229 & 09016 will open from 18th March,2021.@drmbct pic.twitter.com/y0zpzNBNtM
— Western Railway (@WesternRly) March 17, 2021
These trains will run daily
Trains going from Mumbai to Hapa will run seven days a week. This train will also be Duronto Superfast which will stop at stations like Ahmedabad, Surendranagar and Rajkot. The special train run between Indore to Lingampalli will run on Saturday, one day a week. This Humsafar Superfast train will halt Ujjain, Ratlam, Vadodara, Surat, Vasai Road, Panvel, Pune, Solapur, Kalburgi and Vikrabad. All these trains can be travelled with confirmed tickets. In fact, after Corona, railways have converted most of the trains into specials. The train was stopped during the Corona period. After which again many trains were run with special numbers.
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