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Central Railway

Press Release

Extension of periodicity, revision in timings, additional halts to parcel trains

Central Railway has already announced running parcel trains between CSMT and Wadi/Nagpur/Chennai Central/Secunderabad for sending essential commodities like medical, food, etc. It is now decided to extend the periodicity up to 3.5.2020 for all parcel trains, revise the timings and provide additional halts for some trains as under: 

Revised Timings of Secunderabad-CSMT Parcel Train

00112 parcel train will leave Secunderabad now at 15.00 hrs (instead of 09.00 hrs) daily from 17.4.2020 to 4.5.2020.

Wadi (17.45/18.00); Kalaburagi (18.30/18.45); Solapur (20.15/20.30); Kurduwadi (21.40/21.55), Daund (23.30/23.45); Pune (00.55/01.10); Lonavala (02.10/02.15); Kalyan (03.45/04.00) and arrive CSMT at 05.00 hrs next day (instead of 23.00 hrs same day).

Revising Timings of Nagpur-CSMT Parcel Train

00110 parcel train will leave Nagpur now at 18.00 hrs (instead of 21.00 hrs) daily from 16.4.2020 to 3.5.2020, Wardha (19.10/19.25); Badnera (20.40/20.55); Akola (21.55/22.10); Bhusaval (00.10/00.25); Jalgaon (00.55/01.10); Manmad (03.20/03.35); Nashik Road (04.34/04.50); Igatpuri (06.10/06.15); Kalyan (07.50/08.05) and arrive CSMT at 09.10 hrs next day (instead of 12.10 hrs next day)

Additional halts for 00113 CSMT-Shalimar Parcel Train

00113 parcel train leaving CSMT from 16.4.2020 to 3.5.2020 will halt at Akola (09.55/10.05); Wardha (12.20/12.30) and Gondia (16.45/16.55).

Extension of periodicity of parcel trains

Besides, Trains number 00109 CSMT-Nagpur; 00111 CSMT-Secunderabad; 00115 CSMT-Chennai Central parcel trains will leave daily upto 3.5.2020.00114 Shalimar-CSMT and 00116 Chennai Central-CSMT parcel trains will leave daily upto 5.5.2020.

Parcel loaders and e-commerce companies who want to send essential commodities may like to avail this opportunity.  Let us fight together #COVID19.       

Contact telephone no.138

Mumbai: 8828110963 / 8828110983 / 7972279217

Chief Parcel Supervisor: CSMT: 9730536767 / 7400098800

Chief Parcel Supervisor: LTT: 9967447343 / 7666653802

Chief Parcel Supervisor: Kalyan: 9869142069

Bhusaval: 7219611950

Nagpur: 7219612950

Pune: 7219613950

Solapur: 7219614950

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Date: April 15, 2020

2020/04/25

This press release is issued by Public Relations Department, Central Railway, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai

Press Release No. 2020/04                Mumbai, 2^nd April, 2020,

WESTERN RAILWAY TO RUN o­nE MORE PAIR OF

PARCEL SPECIAL TRAIN

Parcel Special to be run between Kankaria and Chennai Central

To fulfill the commitment towards the nation and the people, Western Railway is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that essential commodities are made available across the nation during the time of lockdown. To fulfill this commitment, one more parcel special rake has been planned to run between Kankaria and Chennai Central.Earlier, three timetabled parcel express trains were planned by WR, which departed o­n 31st March, 2020 from Kankaria in Ahmedabad to Sankrail goods terminal at West Bangal, o­n 1st April, 2020 from Bandra Terminus to Ludhiana and o­n 2^nd April, 2020 from Karambeli in Gujarat to Changsari in Assam. The train which departed from Kankaria o­n 31^stMarch, 2020 is scheduled to reach Sankrail today at 20.00 hrs after covering a distance of 2073 kms.

According to a press release issued by Shri Ravinder Bhakar - Chief Public Relations Officer ofWestern Railway, all efforts are being made by WR to ensure the regular supply of essential commodities across all parts of country through its freight trains. To mitigate the difficulties to a certain extent, one more parcel special rake has been planned to run between Kankaria and Chennai Central. This train will run o­n 5^th April 2020 as Train No00907 Kankaria- Chennai Central and depart from Kankaria at 20.00 hrs to reach Chennai Central at 12.00 hrs o­n 7^thApril, 2020. Similarly, in the return direction Train No 00908 will will Chennai Central o­n 7^th April, 2020 at 22.00 hrs to reach Kankariya at 12.50 hrs o­n 9^th April, 2020. The train will halt at Anand, Vadodara, Surat, Nandurbar, Bhusaval, Akola, Badnera, Wardha, Chandrapur, Balharshah, Warangal, Vijaywada Jn, Nellore and Gudur Jn.

Western Railway had decided to open transportation of essential items such as medical supplies, equipment and food etc& accordingly, earlier time table of 3 Parcel Express trains was declared by Western Rly, making total 16 trips during the period from 31^st March to 15^th April, 2020 i.e 12 trips between Bandra Terminus & Ludhiana, 2 trips between Kankariya & Sankrail Goods terminal and 2 trips between Karambeli & Changsari. Now with the addition of train between Kankaria and Chennai Central the total trip would be 18 trips between 31^st March to 15^thApril, 2020. The Parcel Express trains carry commodities such as Milk Product, Edible Oil, Spices, Groceries and Biscuits, dry grass etc. Since the lockdown period till now, from 22^nd March to 2^nd April, 2020, total 587 rakes have been used to supply essential commodities amounting to 1.22 million tonnes. 1515 freight trains were interchanged with other railways, including 748 trains handed over and 767 trains taken over at different interchange points. 11 Millennium Parcel rakes of Parcel Vans/Railway Milk Tankers (RMTs) have been sent to different parts of the country to cope the demands of essential items such as milk powder, liquid milk and other general consumer goods.

It is a matter of great gratification that Indian Railways has maintained its freight corridors well and fully functional inspite of the COVID 19 lockdown and has been successful in meeting the needs of both the households sector and industry. During last 3 days Indian Railways delivered 7195 wagons of Food grains, 64567 wagons of coal, 3314 wagons of steel and 3838 wagons of petroleum. Total 143458 wagons of freight were loaded in the last three days.

Shri Bhakar stated that total losses over Western Railway up to1st April, 2020 has been pegged at Rs 221.40 Cr (inclusive of suburban+ non-suburban). However, Western Railway has also successfully refunded Rs. 132.84 crores against cancellation of tickets till now and in Mumbai Division itself refund of Rs. 62.72 crores has been made.

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