The Western Railway is facing an annual revenue loss of about ₹5,000 crore due to COVID-19 crisis which affected services and led to a drop in the number of train travellers, a senior official has said. “We are incurring an annual revenue loss of ₹5,000 crore in coaching trains (passenger trains) segment due to the COVID-19 crisis,” he said. Mr. Kansal said before the outbreak of COVID-19, the Western Railway used to run about 300 passenger trains. He said the operation of passenger trains is now coming back on track and this is expected to improve the Western Railway’s revenue. “During the last 11 months, the Western Railway has gradually restarted 145 out of its 300 passenger trains... about 50% of our passenger trains have been resumed,” he said.

Source: The Hindu February 24, 2021 05:59 UTC