Tag: East Coast Railway

Vande Bharat mishap near Bhadrak

Traveling to Kolkata by 28896 Puri-Howrah Vande Bharat Express, I had a harrowing experience.

May 22, 2023

The role Railways play in smooth conduct of Puri Car Festival

Apart from providing additional passenger amenities, the railways provide 40 of its workers for upkeep and smooth movement of chariots.

May 20, 2023

Priority to early completion of Odisha rail projects: Minister

Ashwini Vaishnaw instructed the East Coast Railway officials to expedite the construction work for a speedy completion of the projects.

November 26, 2022

Odisha poised to become the largest coastal shipping hub

“The PM Gati-Shakti is a pan Indian platform that would address the critical issues of reducing logistic cost of mineral transport substantially, and thereby accelerate the growth of coastal shipping,” says state chief secretary.

November 15, 2022

ECoR carries out highest ever scrap disposal

ECoR has also earned 14.72% more revenue from this as against earned in last fiscal. During last financial year, ECoR earned Rupees 273.49 crore revenue from Scrap Disposal.

April 1, 2022

East Coast Railway moves to curb cracker transportation in the trains

To make the train journey safer, East Coast Railway has urged passengers to be careful and not to carry and also not let their co-passengers carry inflammable or explosive objects while travelling on passenger-carried trains.

November 2, 2021

East Coast Railway transports 2.6 lakh coal, highest in a single day

East Coast Railway loaded 2.6 lakh tonnes of coal towards Delhi, Punjab, UP, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh from Talcher loading points.

October 18, 2021

‘Extremely severe’ cyclone Fani heads to Odisha coast; armed forces on alert, 103 trains cancelled

The cyclonic storm is moving northwards with a speed of 5 kms per hour and is likely to cross Odisha coast between Gopalpur and Chandbali by Friday afternoon with wind speed of up to 200 km per hour.

May 2, 2019

184 special trains to run during Jagannath Rath Yatra

As many as 184 special trains to and from Puri will be pressed into service during the nine-day Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra in Odisha from July 14, official sources said. The trains will ply from Khurda, Bhubaneswar, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Paradip, Berhampur, Bhawanipatna, Keonjhar, Bangiriposi, Palasa and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Kharagpur, Shalimar in Kolkata between...

July 2, 2018

ECoR instals bottle crushing machine at Puri railway stn

The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has installed two bottle recycle machines at Puri railway station to crush the plastic bottles and avoid plastic wastage at the station premises and on tracks. Puri is the first station in the entire ECoR zone to get such machines.Out of the two machines, one is installed at platform number...

April 10, 2018

Free Wi-Fi in remote stations

Close on the heels of the East Coast Railway’s announcement inviting NGOs and corporate bodies to provide free Wi-Fi in remote tribal areas, its own women’s welfare organisation, East Coast Railway Women’s Welfare Organisation, has provided free Wi-Fi at 32 stations in its jurisdiction. These stations are small and would otherwise not have qualified under...

January 17, 2018

Goods train derails in Odisha

On a day India got a new Railway Minister, a goods train derailed in Odisha’s Cuttack city on Sunday, affecting train services for some time, officials said. No one was hurt in the accident. Official sources said the cement-laden train from Jharsuguda was on its way to Cuttack station when a wagon derailed near the...

September 3, 2017