Railways operating record-breaking 9,111 trips during summer season of 2024
This marks a substantial rise compared to the summer of 2023, where a total of 6,369 trips were offered.
This marks a substantial rise compared to the summer of 2023, where a total of 6,369 trips were offered.
Indian Railways is set to record the best ever performance in its recorded history in terms of the output from the freight business, total revenue and track laying in the Financial year 2023-24, Ministry of Railways said on Friday.
Tripura CM Saha was traveling to Howrah in one of the semi-high-speed Vande Bharat trains, which he boarded from Maldaha.
On a cumulative basis from April 2023 - February 2024, freight loading of 1434.01 MT was achieved by Indian railways against last year’s loading of 1367.5 MT, an improvement of approximately 66.51 MT over last year’s loading for the same period.
Formally opened in April 1930 by the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sir Malcolm Hailey, the Railways’ apex training centre had its life cut short. The IR Board viewed it as an “expensive luxury” amidst the Rs 10 crore-loss Railways suffered in the year then.
Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW), the premier electric locomotive production unit of Indian Railways, has achieved the remarkable milestone, on 31 January, for the first time in the CLW history.
Notably, this is the highest ever capital expenditure for the given time period.
The Indian Railways has for the first time disallowed bookings of parcel packages (train parcel Service booking) from 23-26 January to all the Delhibound trains to beef up security measures in wake of the Republic Day.
The collaboration aims at reducing energy, water consumption.
As per the preliminary data, the IR has achieved an originating freight loading of 1512 MT, an incremental loading of 94 MT, over the previous best of 1418 MT achieved in FY 2021-22 with a growth of around 7 per cent.
