Indian Railways to start 80 new trains from September 12, check out the complete list

The Indian Railways will run 80 new special trains from Saturday in addition to the 230 special trains that are already operating across the country. The bookings of these newly introduced special trains have already been in motion since September 10 at Indian Railways website. The trains will be fully reserved and tickets can also be bought from station counters.

The railways resumed its operation in a graded manner in May after being suspended for two months due to nationwide lockdown that was enforced on March 25 in the wake of coronavirus pandemic. 230 special trains were introduced in various stages of unlock phase. Out of these, 30 are special Rajdhani Type trains and 200 are Special Mail Express trains.

"In addition to the 40 pairs announced recently, more regular trains are expected to be run from Odisha to meet the demand," an official said.

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Recently, Railway Board Chairman VK Yadav, said that railways will monitor all the trains that are currently in operation to determine which trains have a long waiting list. "Wherever there is a demand for a particular train, wherever the waiting list is long, we will run a clone train ahead of the actual train, so that passengers can travel," he said. The key factor in deciding the 80 new trains was the fact that there were many stations from where the migrant workers are going back to their workplace, Yadav said.

"Many of these trains are running in the reverse direction of the Shramik Special trains. So, they (people) are leaving their homes and going to their workplace.

"We are monitoring the occupancy of trains and will run more trains as per demand. Among the 230 trains, the occupancy of 12 is very less. We are running them, but will reduce the number of coaches," he added.

These new 80 trains will connect Delhi-Indore, Yesvantpur-Gorakhpur, Puri-Ahmedabad, Delhi- Bengaluru among other routes. Apart from these, several trains which will connect small cities to Delhi are also being introduced in this phase.

Railways move has come after the announcement of several national-level examinations to facilitate the candidates.