NARASARAOPET

                                                                  SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY

                                    Press Release No. 141  Dt. 06.08.2019

RUNNING OF TRAIN No. 08048 VASCO-DA-GAMA –

 HOWRAH o­nE WAY TATKAL SPECIAL

South Western Railway has decided to run Train No. 08048 Vasco-Da-Gama – Howrah o­ne Way Tatkal Special o­n 07.08.2019 as detailed below: -

Train No. 08048 Vasco-Da-Gama – Howrah o­ne Way Tatkal Special will depart Vasco-Da-Gama at 07:05 hrs o­n 07.08.2019 (Wednesday) and arrive Howrah at 22:40 hrs on next day.

  Enroute, the train will arrive/depart Madgaon- 07:45/07:50 hrs, Sanvordem- 07:59/08:00 hrs, Kulem- 08:28/08:30 hrs, Castlerock- 09:20/09:25 hrs., Londa Jn- 10:03/10:05 hrs, Dharwar- 11:43/11:45 hrs, Hubballi Jn- 12:20/12:30 hrs, Gadag Jn- 13:28/13:30 hrs, Koppal- 14:19/14:20 hrs, Hosapete Jn- 14:48/14:50 hrs, Toranagallu- 15:29/15:30 hrs, Ballari Jn- 16:23/16:25 hrs, Guntkal Jn- 17:10/17:20 hrs, Maddikera- 17:34/17:35 hrs, Dronachellam Jn- 18:38/18:40 hrs, Betamcherla- 19:12/19:13 hrs, Nandyal- 20:20/20:25 hrs, Giddalur- 21:20/21:21 hrs, Cumbum- 21:49/21:50 hrs, Markapur Road- 22:19/22:20 hrs, Donakonda- 22:44/22:45 hrs, Vinukonda- 23:11/23:12 hrs, Narasaraopet- 00:09/00:10 hrs, Guntur Jn- 01:20/01:40 hrs, Vijayawada Jn- 02:45/02:55 hrs, Eluru- 03:18/03:20 hrs, Tadepalligudem- 04:08/04:09 hrs, Rajahmundry- 04:38/04:40 hrs, Samalkot Jn 05:39/05:40 hrs, Duvadda 07:48/07:50 hrs, Visakhapatnam 08:25/08:45 hrs, Vizianagaram Jn 09:43/09:45 hrs, Srikakulam Road 10:43/10:45 hrs, Palasa 11:48/11:50 hrs, Berhampur 12:50/12:52 hrs, Khurda Road Jn 14:50/15:10 hrs, Bhubaneshwar 15:37/15:42 hrs, Cuttack 16:15/16:20 hrs, Jajpur Road 17:15/17:17 hrs, Bhadrakh 17:56/17:58 hrs, Balasore 18:42/18:44 hrs, Kharahpur Jn 20:18/20:33 hrs, Santragachi Jn 21:18/22:00 hrs,

The Train will have a composition of ONE AC 2-tier Coaches THREE AC 3-tier Coaches, NINE Second Class Sleeper Coaches, TWO General Second Class Coaches and ONE Second Class with Luggage cum Brake-van.  

                                                      (E. Vijaya)

                                                         Chief Public Relations Office

Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel of South Central Railway (SCR) zone conducted daylong flash raids against e-touting (touting activity o­n the railway tickets booked through o­nline) named as ‘‘OPERATION THUNDER” o­n 13th June 2019, as per the directions of Director General, Railway Protection Force, New Delhi covering the entire SCR jurisdiction.

These raids were conducted at 20 different locations in twin cities i.e. Hyderabad, Secunderabad as well as in other major towns such as Khammam, Vijayawada, Bhimavaram, Nellore, Guntur, Narasaraopet, Nanded & Aurangabad of SCR. In this operation, 122 live e-tickets & 774 used e-tickets totally 896 e-tickets worth Rs.11,66,355 which were booked by the touts o­n commission basis were seized and arrested 20 touts responsible for it. The different personal User IDs used for such bookings were identified in the raid. During the raids by RPF Teams it is also detected that touts are using prohibited ANMS/Red Mirchi Software for fast booking of tatkal e-tickets.

These drives were conducted under the supervision of Sri G.M.Eswara Rao, Inspector General – Principal Chief Security Commissioner, SCR and with the active involvement of Senior Divisional Security Commissioner of the respective divisions.

Shri Gajanan Mallya, General Manager, SCR appreciated the efforts of RPF in controlling the touting activity and stated that Railways will initiate stringent action against erring travel agents. o­n this occasion, General Manager appealed all the rail users to purchase railway reservation tickets from authorized travel agents o­nly and advised to travel with a valid journey ticket.