Rajdhani Trains and Shatabdi Trains Frequency reduce during foggy weather

Rajdhani Trains and Shatabdi Trains Frequency reduce during foggy weather

Frequency of trains to reduce during foggy weather

LUCKNOW: Railways has planned to reduce frequency of trains that run on sectors badly affected by fog during the upcoming foggy season. Frequency of Rajdhani trains has been reduced by only one trip a week. Week end trips of important trains have not been cancelled to the extent feasible. 

Frequency of weekly, bi-weekly, tri-weekly and 36 pairs of daily popular trains have been left unchanged. Frequency of only those trains that run daily or upto 4 days a week have been reduced by 1 to 3 trips a week so that services remain available on fog affected sector on any given day. 

Trains running with less than 24 coaches on the fog affected sections to maximize the clearance of passengers of that section. No Shatabdi or Rajdhani train has been fully cancelled. 

Only one pair (12259/12260 Sealdah Duronto) has been cancelled for one trip per week. Frequency of ten pairs of Rajdhani trains, Kolkata Rajdhani, Patna Rajdhani, Sealdah Rajdhani, Dibrugarh Rajdhani, Bangalore Rajdhani, Jammu Tawi Rajdhani, Mumbai Rajdhani, August Kranti, Swarn Rajdhani and Bhubneshwar Rajdhani has been reduced by one trip per week. 

Frequency of 14 Shatabdi trains has been reduced by one to three days. Amritsar Swarn Shatabdi, Ludhiana Shatabdi and Chandigarh Shatabdi will have frequency reduced by one day in a week. 

Bhopal Shatabdi, Lucknow Shatabdi, Kalka Shatabdi, Kalka Shatabdi, Amritsar Shatabdi, Ajmer Shatabdi, Dehradun Shatabdi, Jaipur-Agra Shatabdi, Kathgodam Shatabdi, Howrah-New Jalpaiguri Shatabdi will have frequency reduced by two days a week. Kanpur Shatabdi will run three days a week. 

Frequency of five Janshatabdi trains has been reduced by two days, Howrah-Patna JanShatabdi, Haridwar-Amritsar JanShatabdi, Dehradun-New Delhi JanShatabdi, New Delhi-Una Himachal JanShatabdi and Kota-Hazrat Nizamuddin JanShatabdi. 

In total, frequency of 229 pairs of mail/express train has been reduced by 1 to 3 days a week.

Source :Times Of India