New Delhi: Considering the success of clone trains, Indian Railways has said that it will run the services of these trains even after the COVID period.
The Chairman of the Board of Railways has said that the experimentation of running the clone trains has been successful and therefore Railways has decided to continue operations.
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The president of the Railroad Board has said that these clone trains are currently 72 to 80 percent occupied. Clone trains typically run on routes where waiting list tickets are above 150 percent.
Clone trains are duplicate trains on high demand routes. Indian Railways launched 40 pairs of new special trains or “clone” trains as of September 21. This was the first time that Indian Railways “ran 40” clone “or duplicate trains on high demand routes.
It should be noted that these trains were added to the 310 special trains that were already in operation. These trains were run an hour or two before the departure of special trains that already operate. However, travel time and stops were limited to operational stops.
While tickets for 19 pairs of these trains were charged at Humsafar Express rates, they will be on par with Janshatabdi Express rates for the clone train between Lucknow and Delhi.
According to Indian Railways, 10 trains (5 pairs) were operating between Bihar and Delhi under the East Central Railways. The Northern Railway had 10 trains (5 pairs) operating between Delhi and Bihar and vice versa, West Bengal to Delhi, Punjab to West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh to Delhi, among others.
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The South Central Railway operated two trains between Danapur (Bihar) and Secunderabad and vice versa. The South Western Railway operated 6 trains (3 pairs) between Goa and Delhi, Karnataka-Bihar and Karnataka-Delhi. The Western Railway had 10 trains (5 pairs) between Bihar (Darbhanga) -Gujarat (Ahmedabad), Delhi-Gujarat, Bihar (Chhapra) to Gujarat (Surat), Mumbai-Punjab, Gujarat (Ahmedabad) -Bihar (Patna).
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