new Delhi. By the way, Indian Railways keeps on doing new experiments from time to time. Now in this sequence, Indian Railways is soon going to run double-decker trains for the public. Actually, now Indian Railways has taken this important decision to make long distance travel comfortable.
According to the information received, some such coaches will also be there in these trains, in which there will be facility of freight below and ride above. In this regard, East Central Railway (ECR) and Eastern Railway (ER) have also sent a proposal to Railway Board, New Delhi. Also, according to the information, as soon as this decision is approved, Bihar and West Bengal will get one new rack each in its first batch.
decided to run on this route
Let us tell the readers that in the past also a double decker was run from Dhanbad to Howrah, which is currently closed. At the same time, talk of running a double decker on Delhi to Howrah rail route has also been started. At present, the East Central Railway (ECR) has fixed the route of running double-decker trains via Patna, Barauni, Katihar and Patna, Kiul. Whereas Eastern Railway Kolkata has demanded only a low height double decker, which will be a train with freight as well as passenger convenience.
What does Railway PRO say?
Regarding this matter, ECR’s PRO Virendra Kumar said that at present, it is being considered to run a double-decker train from Delhi to Howrah. At present, the proposal of double decker has been sent to the senior railway officials. At the same time, he said that if permission is given, first of all the ECR and ER sections will have to be made capable of operating double-decker trains.