While Indian Railways has been calibrating its post-closure services, several trains, including India’s first semi-high speed Vande Bharat Express, are now back on track. Indian Railways resumed services in May through Shramik Specials, which were supposed to transport migrant workers to their home states. After Shramik Specials, Indian Railways introduced several special trains, the last being Vande Bharat.
Here are the latest updates on the resumption of rail services:
one. The New Delhi-Varanasi Vande Bharat Express train has been running again since Saturday after an interval of 170 days. This train will run five days a week, except Monday and Thursday.
two. The Vande Bharat Express occupancy on the first day was low, with only 2% bookings.
3. This is the first time that the railways have resumed Express services on an existing route. The 310 trains currently running are special trains. Among these 310, there are 30 Rajdhani type trains.
Four. Another existing Vande Bharat route is between Delhi and Katra. Services on this route have yet to resume.
5. 80 special trains started on September 12.
6. The railways said that of the 230 trains that resumed earlier, the occupancy at 12 is much lower. The railways will reduce the number of coaches on these trains.
7. In general, the occupancy on all these special trains is around 80 percent.
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