The ticket price of around 48 mail and express trains would be increased as Indian Railways would impose a superfast levy. In a bid to reduce halt timings of around 500 long-distance trains, Indian Railways has rolled out a new timetable which would be applicable from November 1 onwards. According to the new timetable, now the running time of popular trains will reduce by 15 minutes to two hours from tomorrow. Coupled with track and infrastructure upgrade, automatic signalling and the new Linke-Hofmann-Busch coaches that allow a 130 kmph top speed, trains are expected to run faster. The comments of the new railways minister come after a spate of rail accidents in the last few month leading to loss of lives.

Source: dna November 07, 2017 07:29 UTC