Title - 18 news trains to cross NCR region

ALLAHABAD: Changes have been made in the new time table of the railways that will be implemented from July 1. Several new trains will be introduced in the current year while timings of certain trains have been changed.

About 18 new trains will be introduced that will pass through the North Central Railway region. Though the date of running of these trains will be declared later, the timings have been mentioned in the new railway time table.

The new trains include Kanpur-Anand Vihar terminal (14151/14152), Bandra-Ramnagar (19061/19062), Bandra-Haridwar Express (22917/22918), Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Nizamuddin Express (22109/22110), Jaipur-Lucknow Express (19715/19716), Shirdi Sainagar-Kalka Express (22455/22456), Kolkata-Agra Cantt Express (13167/13168), Kota-Jammu Tawi Express (19803/19804), Mau-Anand Vihar terminal Express (15025/15026), Patliputra-Yashwantpur Express (22351/22352), Nanded-Nangaldam Express (22457/22458), Yeshwantpur-Lucknow Express (22683/22684), Thirvanthapuram-Nizamuddin Express (22633/22634), Chhapra-Durg Express (15117/15118), Bhubneshwar-New Delhi Express (22805/22806), Indore-Chandigarg Express (19307/19308) and Kanpur-Barabanki Memu (64236/64235).

Out of the 18 new trains, two will pass through Allahabad railway junction, including weekly Yashwantpur-Lucknow Express that will travel via Manikpur, Allahabad and Prayag.

Apart from these new trains, a few existing one will be extended to other stations. Allahabad-Mathura (12403/12404) will be extended to Jaipur. Indore-Gwalior Express will be extended to Jhansi, Darbhanga-Bangalore Express to Mysore, Durg-Chhapra Express to Muzaffarpur and Gondia, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus-Darbhanga Express to Raxaul, Madgaon-Hazrat Nizamuddin Express to Chandigarh, Meerut- Nimach Link Express to Mandasor, Yeshwantpur-Hazrat Nizamuddin Sampark Kranti Express to Chandigarh (2 days) and Chhapra-Kanpur Anwarganj Express to Farrukhabad. However, the date of extensions of the above trains will be announced later.

The major jolt to the people of Allahabad will be that four trains would skip Allahabad junction following change in route.

These trains include Howrah-Gwalior/Mathura Chambal Express (12175/12176/12177/12178), Indore-Howrah Shipra Express (22911/22912), Rajendra Nagar-Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (13201/13202) and Mumbai CST-Varanasi Mahanagri Express (11093/11094). These trains would now pass through Chheoki. In addition to this, routes of some trains, including Puri-Haridwar Express, Vishakhapatnam-Amritsar would also be changed.

Besides, Allahabad-New Delhi Duranto Express (12275/12276) will now depart from Allahabad on Sunday instead of Saturday. On its return journey it will start from New Delhi on Monday instead of Sunday. The change would be implemented from September 6. However, this train will continue to leave from Allahabad on Tuesday and Thursday and from New Delhi end on Wednesday and Friday.

In addition to this, day of running of some other trains too have been changed. This includes Howrah-New Delhi Yuva Express, Bhubneshwar- New Delhi Duranto Express, Sealdah-New Delhi and Amritsar-Indore Express.