Remarkable growth in SER’s passenger traffic

Kolkata: During the first eight months i.e. April-November of the current financial year (2018-19), South Eastern Railway carried 179.40 million originating passengers as against 173.96 million originating passengers carried during the corresponding period of last financial year achieving a growth of 3.13%. Out of total 179.40 million originating passengers, 93.43 million were suburban passengers while 85.97 million were non-suburban passengers. The growth in a number of passengers has been observed both in suburban and non-suburban segments which are 1.8% and 4.62% respectively.

This growth in the number of passengers has resulted in increased earnings from passenger traffic during the first eight months of the current financial year. During April-November of the current financial year, South Eastern Railway has earned Rs.1387.44 crores from originating passenger traffic which is Rs.52.82 crores more than the corresponding period of last year i.e. 2017-18 thus registering a growth of about 4%.

New landing at existing foot over bridge at Santragachi station

Kolkata: With a view to avoiding crowding of passengers at Foot Over Bridge of Santragachi station, one additional landing of the existing Foot Over Bridge has been constructed at the station on a war footing as per instructions of General Manager, South Eastern Railway, Shri P.S. Mishra. The new landing has been inaugurated today by one of the senior most passengers, Sri Manindra Sarkar and has been opened for the commuters.

The work has been completed in a record time of just one month. The new landing has been constructed at the Kona Expressway side, which is used by the maximum number of passengers coming to and from Kolkata. Earlier, there were only one  & same entry and exit steps for the passengers. Now the newly constructed landing facility will enhance the separate exit and separate entry of the passengers to avoid the heavy rush at highly Populated Santragachi Station. This landing with fully metalized rustproof structure will help in better dispersal of passengers from Santragachi station.

Apart from this, the work of one additional Foot Over Bridge at Santragachi Station is going on in full swing and is targeted to be commissioned by 31st January 2019.

SER to run 9 pairs of winter spl trains towards Jaipur, Chennai & Hapa

Kolkata: To clear the extra rush of passengers during the winter season, South Eastern Railway has decided to run 9 pairs of Winter Special Trains between Shalimar- Jaipur, Santragachi-Chennai, and Santragachi-Hapa on different nominated days during the period from 14.12.18 to 02.01.19

08061/08062 Shalimar-Jaipur-Shalimar Winter Special (3 Pairs)

08061 Shalimar-Jaipur Special leaving Shalimar at 20.20 hrs every Monday will reach Jaipur at 06.35 hrs on Wednesday. In the opposite direction, 08062 Jaipur-Shalimar Special leaving Jaipur at 12.50 hrs every Wednesday will arrive Shalimar at 23.20 hrs, the next day.

The Special Train consisting of four AC 2-Tier, five AC 3-Tier and four Sleeper Class coaches will have stoppages at Santragachi, Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Chakradharpur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Raigarh, Champa, Bilaspur, Pendra Road, Anuppur, Shadahol, Katni Murwara, Damoh, Sagar, Bina  Malkhedi, Guna, Ruthiyai, Kota, Sawai Madhopur, Bansthali Niwai and Durgapura stations between Shalimar and Jaipur.

02841/02842 Santragachi-Chennai- Santragachi Superfast Winter Special (3 pairs)

02841 Santragachi-Chennai Special leaving Santragachi at 12.40 hrs every Friday will reach Chennai at 16.40 hrs, the next day. In the opposite direction, 02842 Chennai-Santragachi Special leaving Chennai at 18.20 hrs every Saturday will arrive Santragachi at 23.30 hrs, the next day.

The Special Train consisting of four AC 2-Tier, five AC 3-Tier, and four Sleeper Class coaches will have stoppages at Kharagpur,  Bhadrak, Jajpur Keonjhar Road, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road, Brahmapur,  Vizianagaram, Duvvda, Rajahmundry,  Vijayawada and Nellore between Santragachi and Chennai.

02834/02833 Santragachi-Hapa-Santragachi Superfast AC Winter Special (3 Pairs)

02834 Santragachi-Hapa Special leaving Santragachi at 21.05 hrs every Friday will reach Hapa at 16.35 hrs on Sunday. In the opposite direction, 02833 Hapa-Santragachi Special leaving Hapa at 10.40 hrs every Monday will arrive Santragachi at 05.45 hrs on Wednesday.

The Special Train consisting of fourteen AC 3-Tier coaches will have stoppages at Kharagpur, Tatanagar, Chakradharpur, Rourkela, Jharsuguda, Bilaspur, Raipur, Durg, Gondia, Nagpur, Wardha, Badnera, Akola, Malkapur, Bhusaval, Jalgaon, Amalner, Nandurbar, Surat, Bharuch, Vadodara,  Anand, Nadiad, Ahmedabad, Viramgam, Surendranagar, Wankaner and Rajkot between Santragachi and Hapa.