IRCTC To Run Passenger Trains For First Time

For the first time, the Railways entrusted the task of running the train to another institution. IRCTC will now run Tejas trains on Delhi-Lucknow-Delhi and Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Ahmedabad routes. IRCTC will be responsible for running both these trains and in return the Railways will take money from IRCTC. Till now IRCTC used to run tourist train but for the first time IRCTC has got the responsibility of running passenger train.

The first train to start with IRCTC management will be operated in Lucknow – New Delhi – Lucknow sector having a total journey time of 6 hours and 15 minutes. This train will have one Executive class air conditioned chair car having 56 seats and nine air conditioned chair cars having capacity of 78 seats each. The total carrying capacity of the train will be 758 passengers. The train will start its journey in the morning at 06:10 hours and will reach New Delhi at 12:25 hours having scheduled commercial halts at Kanpur Central and Ghaziabad. In the return direction, train will leave New Delhi at 16:30 hours and will reach Lucknow at 22:45 hours having schedule halts at Ghaziabad and Kanpur Central enroute. Train will run 6 days a week except Tuesday.