The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi flagged off Gandhinagar- Mumbai Vande Bharat Express at Gandhinagar station and travelled on the train from there to Kalupur Railway Station today. When he arrived at Gandhinagar station, the […]

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved Indian Railways’ proposal for redevelopment of  3 major railway stations with an approximate total investment of nearly ₹10,000 Cr.: a) New Delhi Railway Station; […]

Indian Railways has been working in the pursuit of reducing the unit cost of logistics to minimum. Of late, rail infrastructure projects related with Railway tracks have been given big push and as a result, […]

Alstom, global leader in smart and sustainable mobility, has demonstrated the effectiveness of its hydrogen powered solutions for long distance transportation. During a long-distance journey, an unmodified serially-produced Coradia iLint train covered 1,175 kilometres without […]

Indian Railways Production Units i.e. Integral Coach Factory (ICF),  Chennai, Rail Coach Factory (RCF) at Kapurthala, Modern Coach Factory (MCF) at Rae Bareli, Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) at Chittaranjan, Banaras Locomotive Works (BLW) at Varanasi, Patiala […]

Just two days before India’s 75th Independence Day, the world’s highest rail bridge over the Chenab river in the Kouri area of Reasi district, the much-awaited engineering marvel, achieved another milestone when the overarch deck […]

Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, visited ICF today, 12th August 2022, to inspect the newly commissioned Vande Bharat Rake. He was accompanied by Shri A.K. Agarwal, GM, […]

The Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai which is manufacturing the new upgraded rakes of Vande Bharat will soon roll out the third rake of Vande Bharat Express according to officials of ICF. According to […]

NHSRCL has invited bids for the design and construction of Bandra Kurla Complex high speed rail station in Mumbai (Maharashtra) under C1 package. This will be the only underground station in Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed […]

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved the construction of Taranga Hill-Ambaji- Abu Road new rail line at an estimated cost of Rs.2798.16 crore. The total length […]

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated, dedicated to the Nation and laid the Foundation Stone of a number of key railway projects in Jharkhand from Deoghar today, Tuesday, 12th July 2022. This included foundation stone […]

Making South Eastern Railway a “Zero Scrap” Railway is o­ne of the mission areas of this zone. Necessary steps are being taken by all the Divisions and Workshops to realise value from sale of unserviceable […]

RailTel, a Mini Ratna Central Government PSU under Ministry of Railways, entrusted with the implementation of Video Surveillance System (VSS) project (CCTV cameras network) under Nirbhaya Fund at Railway Stations has taken a major step […]

As the first quarter of economy ends, North Central Railway (NCR) registers 21.3% growth in originating freight loading. NCR loaded 5.24 million tonnes of cargo during April-June 2022 surpassing all previous records. This is the […]

Shri Alok Singh has taken over as the Additional General Manager, Central Railway, Mumbai. Prior to this, he was Principal Chief Safety Officer, Central Railway. Shri Alok Singh succeeds Shri B. K. Dadabhoy, who has […]

Looking at the popularity and growing demand by the commuters, Western Railway has decided to increase the number of AC local services over Mumbai Suburban section with effect from 20th June, 2022. With the introduction of […]

As the situation in Dima Hasao is gradually returning to normalcy. Restoration work of the railways continues in full swing. In the beginning of 2nd week of May, due to heavy torrential rains and massive landslides, […]

Gujarat’s industrial hub Sanand, where major manufacturing units of Tata Motors, Nestle, Parle, Posco India, Coca Cola, Bosch, Hitachi Hirel, Alstom Bharat Forge, Colgate-Palmolive and others are situated, is all set to connect with the […]

After Sir MV terminal at Byappanahalli and Cantonment railway station, Yeshwantpur is likely to be the third terminal in Bengalore offering airport-like facilities. While train services from the Rs 314-crore Sir MV terminal commenced on […]

The first service of the theme-based Bharat Gaurav Train from Coimbatore North to Sainagar Shirdi started its journey on 14-06-2022 in the presence of Shri Gautam Srinivas, DRM, Salem Division, Shri R Senthil Kumar, Chief […]

Indian Railways, the National transporter has taken an important initiative in field of innovation through participation of start-ups and other entities. Hon’ble Minister of Railways, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw has […]

Shreyas Hosur, Dy. FA&CAO © from South Western Railway has made Indian Railways proud by becoming  the first ever Railway officer and also the first ever officer from the non-uniformed Civil Services to complete the […]

The state of Tamil Nadu is witnessing a new era in rail development with various infrastructural projects like Doubling, tripling, Gauge conversion and electrification being executed at a faster pace.   The annual budgetary outlay for […]

Multi-Disciplinary Zonal Training Institute, Dharwad, South Western Railway celebrated its 11th Anniversary o­n 6th June 2022. This Institute was started in the year 2011 after the inception of South Western Railway in the year 2003. It […]

With a view to provide safe, secured and comfortable journey to the travelling passengers, South Eastern Railway has decided to convert the first and second rakes of the 12839/12840 Howrah-MGR Chennai Mail and 12841/12842 Shalimar-Chennai […]

On 7th June 2022, General Manager, North Central Railway, Shri Pramod Kumar conferred awards to staff for their alertness and contribution towards safety in train operations in the presence of PHOD’s  of North Central Railway. 05 Railway staff were conferred with Safety awards by the General Manager […]

Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central Railway gave away “General Manager’s Safety Award” to ten Central Railway staff i.e. three from Mumbai Division, two each from Bhusaval, Pune and Solapur Division and o­ne from […]

The ultra luxury Sir M Visvesvaraya Railway Terminal in Karnataka’s capital city Bengaluru was made operational on Monday, 6 June. The Ernakulam Tri-Weekly Express chugged trough the station to mark this special occasion. According to […]

Central Railway has continued its relentless efforts towards achieving “Zero Scrap Mission” to ensure each Division, Workshop and Shed is free from scrap materials. These scrap materials include scrap rails, permanent-way materials, condemned coaches, wagons […]

Monsoon is o­ne season everybody expects so that water is available for the citizens during non-monsoon period and replenishes the ground water level.  However, in areas like Mumbai, the city in which everybody moves o­n […]

South Eastern Railway has loaded 33.07 Million Tonnes of originating freight in the first two months i.e. April and May of the current financial year (2022-23), as against 32.16 Million Tonnes loaded in the corresponding period […]

To facilitate passengers, Indian Railways has decided to increase the limit of booking maximum 6 tickets in a month to 12 tickets by a user ID which is not Aadhaar linked and the limit of […]

5th June is globally observed as a World Environment Day every year with the aim to raise awareness on environmental issues. The campaign slogan for this year’s Environment Day is “Only One Earth” with the focus […]

World Environment Day 2022 observed o­n Central Railway in line with United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) initiated activities focussing o­n this year’s theme “Only o­ne Earth”.  Shri Anil Kumar Lahoti, General Manager, Central Railway laid […]

The World Environment Day was celebrated over North Central Railway on 5th June 2022. Various events were organized signifying this years theme “Only One Earth” over the zone. On this occasion, a plantation program was […]

South Eastern Railway celebrated World Environment Day at its Headquarters, Garden Reach and four Divisions viz. Kharagpur, Adra, Chakradharpur and Ranchi on 5th June 2022. Ms. Archana Joshi, General Manager, South Eastern Railway planted saplings […]

South Western Railway observed World Environment Day o­n 05th June, 2022.  o­n the occasion, Shri Sanjeev Kishore, GM/SWR launched ‘Water Self-sufficiency Project’ at Railway Golf Course, Hubballi and released ‘Sustainability Handbook 2022’ brought out by the […]

Western Railway has successfully undertaken various infrastructural upgradation and augmentation works for the convenience of passengers. In continuation to this, a new Foot Over Bridge (FOB) has been commissioned at Bhayander station in the Mumbai […]

Southern Railway has carried forward the momentum of the previous year in the year 2022-23 as well, and has recorded best ever Monthly freight loading of 3.621 million tonnes (MT) in May’ 2022.  Importantly, this is the […]

Central Railway achieved the best ever May month freight loading of 7.29 million tonnes of freight in May 2022.  This is an increase of 15.5% over previous best achieved in May 2021 which was 6.32 […]

The introduction of ‘’Deccan Queen’’ between the two premier cities of Maharashtra o­n 1st June 1930 was a major landmark in the history of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, the forerunner of the Central Railway. […]

Central Railway won 3 shields at the 67th National Railway Awards Function held at Bhubaneshwar o­n 28.5.2022.  Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Hon’ble Minister of Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India presented 155 individual […]

The Central Railways Environment and House-keeping Management department has relentlessly worked to achieve environmental sustainability targets through various measures. These measures undertaken in accordance with norms issued by Hon’ble National Green Tribunal (NGT) and Railway […]

Central Railway has started the Financial year 2022-23 with record earnings of Rs.8.69 crores in Non-Fare Revenue, Rs.44.64 crores in Parcel earnings and Rs.71.61 crores in ticket checking in April and May 2022. To ensure […]

The Ministry of Coal,  in view of cleaner environment in coal transportation has given momentum in rail evacuation and also initiating news efforts to gradually move away from road movement of coal in country.  Planned construction […]

To further strengthen people to people connectivity through Rail between India and Bangladesh, Government of India and Bangladesh, after several meetings, decided to start a new passenger train service Mitali Express via recently-restored Haldibari-Chilahati rail link. This third […]

In a major boost toward E-mobility, the Secunderabad Division of South Central Railway has awarded a contract for setting up E-Vehicle charging stations at 32 important railway stations. E-mobility is an important step towards environmental […]

Railway Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) V K Tripathi on Sunday, 29th May 2022 inspected coal loading points at Talcher in Odisha’s Angul district and took stock of development activities in connection with […]

The Indian Railways, which is process of transformation, is now moving towards showcasing a classic example of an engineering marvel with the new Pamban Bridge. Indian Railways began the construction work on the new 2.05 […]

Jindal Steel & Power (JSP) will launch India’s first Rail Wheelset manufacturing plant at its Raigarh facility in Chhattisgarh, the company said in a statement on 27th May 2022. JSP has collaborated with GIFLO Steel […]