South Eastern Railway to add permanent extra coaches in four important express trains

Jamshedpur, Jan 29: In a move to clear  extra rush of passengers, South Eastern Railway has decided to add permanent extra coaches to four important express trains on a permanent basis.  The  Howrah-Jagdalpur Express will get one extra First- AC- cum AC-2 Tier Coach  and  one extra AC-3 Tier Coach upto Sambalpur and one extra AC-3 Tier Coach and one extra sleeper class coach upto Jagdalpur  with effect from April 1 this year.

 The Jagdalpur-Howrah Express will  get facility of  one extra AC-3 Tier Coach and one extra sleeper class coach from Jagdalpur to Howrah  from April 3 onwards. In addition, one extra First AC cum AC-2 Tier coach and one extra AC-3 Tier coach will be attached from Sambalpur to Howrah  from April 2.

The Rourkela-Bhubaneswar  Intercity Express will  get one  extra AC-3 Tier  and four extra general chair car Coaches  from April 1. The Hatia-Purnia Court Express will  get an  extra AC-2 Tier and  two extra AC-3 Tier coaches. This will be implemented  from April 1  from Hatia  and April 2 from Purnia Court.

The  Ranchi-Sasaram  Express will  get  one extra AC Chair Car and three extra general chair car Coaches from April 1.

An official said every year during the vacation such rush is witnessed. Steps are being taken to ease the rush. He went on to inform that South Eastern Railway has decided to attach extra coaches to several long distance trains passing through Tatanagar to accommodate passengers.

 The Tatanagar railway station is the only A1-category railway station under Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway ( SER). The footfall at the station is gradually on the rise because of increasing number of trains and also because of the fact that Tatanagar falls on the Howrah-Mumbai main line. Several important trains travel via Tatanagar, including the high-profile Rajdhani Express and Duronto Express. The station sees a daily traffic of 90 mail, express and passenger trains, besides a footfall of more than 60,000 passengers.