Namaste! As the country prepares to celebrate the auspicious occasion of Chhath Puja, the Railways is also gearing up to accommodate the passenger rush ahead of the festivities. The Railways is preparing for Chhath Puja by running new special trains and increasing coaches in existing trains.
Along with this, the national transporter has also renamed Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad Junction Railway Station as Ayodhya Cantonment.
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Chhath Special Trains
The DRM of Samastipur Division under the East Central Railway has shared a list of as many as 34 special trains running on various dates. These trains conveniently pass through Samastipur, Saharsa, Darbhanga, Barauni, Sitamarhi and other destinations in Bihar:
For the convenience of passengers, various Festival Special Trains are being run. Here is the full list of all upcoming festival special trains passing through various stations of Samastipur Division along with the Journey start date.@ECRlyHJP@spjdivn pic.twitter.com/5woVXcZj4W
— Sr DCM Samastipur (@srdcmspj) November 7, 2021
The East Central Railway will also be running train nos. 03697/03698 between KSR Bengaluru and Danapur via Ara, Buxar and Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Jn.:
छठ महापर्व बाद यात्रियों की सुविधा के लिए आरा, बक्सर, पंडित दीन दयाल उपाध्याय जंक्शन के रस्ते दानापुर और केएसआर बेंगलुरु के मध्य छठ पूजा स्पेशल ट्रेन का परिचालन किया जाएगा ।
▶️03697 दानापुर से केएसआर बेंगलुरु : 15.11.2021 को
▶️03698 केएसआर बेंगलुरु से दानापुर : 18.11.2021 को pic.twitter.com/Uore5DhOWA— East Central Railway (@ECRlyHJP) November 7, 2021
The North Eastern Railway has announced six Chhath Special trains. These trains will ply to Gorakhpur, Barauni and Darbhanga:
छठ से छह पूजा स्पेशल चलने से यात्रियों को मिलेगी सहूलियत pic.twitter.com/TeBL6eSlWT
— North Eastern Railway (@nerailwaygkp) November 4, 2021
The North Eastern Railway has also added sleeper class coaches to nine trains, in order to ease the long waiting list of passengers:
छठ के अवसर पर गाड़ियों में लम्बी प्रतीक्षा सूची को देखते हुये
नौ ट्रेनों में बढ़ाए गए अतिरिक्त कोच pic.twitter.com/B9GXLjP4kO— North Eastern Railway (@nerailwaygkp) November 7, 2021
Faizabad Junction renamed as Ayodhya Cantonment
The Railways has also changed the name of Uttar Pradesh’s Faizabad Junction to Ayodhya Cantonment With immediate effect. The station code for Ayodhya Cantt. will now be AYC, as opposed to the earlier station code FD.
The station falls under the Lucknow Division of Northern Railway, who confirmed the above information in a tweet:
It is notified for the information of general public that with immediate effect, the name of Faizabad Jn. (FD) Railway Station in Lucknow Division of Northern Railway has been changed to AYODHYA CANTT (AYC). pic.twitter.com/NtdhAovqF0
— Northern Railway (@RailwayNorthern) November 3, 2021
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