Railways formulated action plan for Holi, decided to run 30 special trains; list below

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Railways have prepared an action plan for Holi. Along with running more and more trains, security preparations have also been made. The railway will run special trains on several routes to bring passengers to their destination with safety. Northern Railway has decided to run 30 special trains for Holi.
Which will make a total of 402 rounds. Apart from this, additional coaches will be installed in 24 regular trains. Additional counters at stations, frequent announcement of special trains, crowd control, deployment of police force, dog squad as well as the roadmap for continuous monitoring of railway officers have been prepared.

Deepak Kumar, Chief Public Relations Officer of Northern Railway, said that better arrangements have been made this year keeping in mind the rush of passengers. A large number of trains will be run for the passengers going towards Purvanchal. On the occasion of festival, 8-9 lakh additional passengers will be able to travel. Special teams have been formed to catch the touts at the ticket booking centers so that passengers do not have any difficulty in taking tickets. In the train, the checking staff will ask passengers for ID proof along with the ticket.

He said that special trains will run from 1 to 31 March. Most of these trains will run from March 7 to March 12. Out of the total 36 trains running from zones other than Northern Railway, 60 percent trains will be run for east direction. Most of these trains will run from New Delhi and Anand Vihar.

Retired employees will be deployed for crowd management. CCTV, women RPF, women TT will also be deployed. Drinking water system will also be better. New Delhi platform number 16 will run most of the trains in the east direction.

Ahead of Holi, also known as festival of colours, the Central Railway (CR) on Wednesday announced to run 26 special trains to curb the rush of passengers during the festival. The CR will run 26 weekly special trains between Mumbai to Patna, Varanas, Mau and Pune from to Danapur and Ballarshah.

The ticket booking for these special trains will begin from February 29 at all PRS locations and o­n website www.irctc.co.in. General second class coaches will run as unreserved coaches and tickets can be booked through UTS as applicable to superfast mail/express trains.

Following are the details of the 26 weekly special trains:

1) LTT-Patna-LTT specials (weekly) 4Trips

Train No. 02041 Weekly Special will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 05.10 hrs on Thursday 5.3.2020 and 12.3.2020 and will arrive Patna at 11.20 hrs on next day i.e. Friday.

Train No. 01104 Weekly Special will leave Patna at 21.00 hrs on Friday 6.3.2020 and 13.3.2020 and will arrive Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 04.10 hrs third day i.e. Sunday.

Halts: Thane, Kalyan , Igatpuri, Nashik Road, Bhusaval, Khandwa, Harda, Itarsi, Pipapriya, Gadarwara, Narsinghpur, Madan Mahal, Jabalpur, Katni, Maihar, Satna, Manikpur, Allahabad Chheoki, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaye, Buxar and Ara.

Composition: One AC 2 Tier, Three AC-3 Tier, 14 Sleeper class and 5 General Second Class.

2) LTT- Varanasi- LTT specials (weekly) 4Trips

Train No. 01117 Weekly Special will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 23.05 hrs on Sunday 8.3.2020 and 15.3.2020 and will arrive Varanasi at 6.15 hrs on Third day i.e. Tuesday.

02048 Weekly Special will leave Varanasi at 8.00 hrs on Tuesday 10.3.2020 and 17.3.2020 and will arrive Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 14.00 hrs next day.

Halts: Thane, Kalyan, Igatpuri, Nashik Road, Bhusaval, Khandwa, Harda, Itarsi, Pipapriya, Gadarwara, Narsinghpur, Madan Mahal, Jabalpur, Katni, Maihar, Satna, Manikpur and Allahabad Chheoki.

Composition: One AC 2 Tier, Three AC-3 Tier, 14 Sleeper class and 5 General Second Class.

3) LTT- MAU- LTT specials (weekly) 4Trips

Train No. 02043 Weekly Special will leave Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 5.10 hrs on Saturday 7.3.2020 and 14.3.2020 and will arrive Mau at 9.50 hrs on next day i.e. Sunday.

01120 Weekly Special will leave Mau at 19.25 hrs on Sunday 08.3.2020 and 15.3.2020 and will arrive Lokmanya Tilak Terminus at 05.00 hrs Third day.

Halts: Thane, Kalyan, Igatpuri, Nashik Road, Bhusaval, Khandwa, Harda, Itarsi, Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Vidisha, Bina, Saugor, Damoh, Katni Murwara, Maihar, Satna, Manikpur and Allahabad Chheoki, Varanasi and Aunrihar Jn.

Composition: One AC 2 Tier, Three AC-3 Tier, 14 Sleeper class and 5 General Second Class.

4) Pune-Danapur-Pune specials (weekly) 4Trips

Train No. 01123 Weekly Special will leave Pune at 17.40 hrs on Sunday 8.3.2020 and 15.3.2020 and will arrive Danapur at 01.30 hrs on third day i.e. Tuesday.

Train No. 01124 Weekly Special will leave Danapur at 6.30 hrs on 11.3.2020 and 17.3.2020 and will arrive Pune at 17.10 hrs next day.

Halts: Ahmednagar, Belapur, Kopargaon, Manmad, Bhusaval, Khandwa, Itarsi, Pipapriya, Gadarwara, Narsinghpur, Madan Mahal, Jabalpur, Katni, Maihar, Satna, Manikpur, Allahabad Chheoki, Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyaye, Buxar and Ara.

Composition: One AC 2 Tier, Three AC-3 Tier, 14 Sleeper class and 5 General Second Class.

5) Pune-Ballarshah-Pune specials (weekly) 10Trips

Train No. 02049 Weekly Special will leave Pune at 17.30 hrs on every Tuesday from 3.3.2020 to 31.3.2020 (5 Trips) and will arrive Ballarshah at 14.25 hrs next day.

Train No. 01480 Weekly Special will leave Ballarshah at 18.15 hrs on every Wednesday from 04.03.2020 to 01.04.2020 (5 Trips) and will arrive Pune at 17.00 hrs next day.

Halts: Lonavala, Kalyan, Vasai Road, Virar, Palghar, Vapi, Valsad, Navsari, Bhestan, Chalthan, Nandurbar, Amalner, Dharagaon, Paldhi, Jalgaon, Bhusaval, Malkapur, Shegaon, Akola, Badnera, Dhamangaon, Wardha, Hinganghat and Chandrapur.

Composition: One AC 2 Tier, Five AC-3 Tier, 8 Sleeper class and 6 General Second Class.