1.49 Lakh Tickets Booked in 2 Hrs for 1st Set of Spl Trains: Rlys

RAC, waitlist will be generated but waiting list ticket-holders won’t be permitted to board the trains.

With a week to go for the third phase for Lockdown 3.0 to end, the Indian Railways will start running ‘special trains’ from New Delhi on 12 May.

(Photo: Kamran Akhtar/The Quint)

Indian Railways on Thursday, 21 May, said that within two hours of online booking opening, 1,49,025 tickets were booked for the first set of 73 special passenger trains that will be run from 1 June.

The booking began at 10 am on Thursday. Shortly after, the IRCTC also tweeted saying, “Website is working fine. Tickets are getting booked.”

A Railways Ministry spokesperson said that only online e-ticketing will be done through the IRCTC website or through its mobile application.

Indian Railways on Friday said, “From today booking/cancellation of reserved tickets shall also be available at Post Offices, Yatri Ticket Suvidha Kendra licensees and through authorized agents of IRCTC along with Passenger Reservation System counters of reservation centers and Common Service Centers.”

The Railways had on Wednesday released a list of 200 new passenger trains that will start running from 1 June along with a new set of guidelines. The online bookings for the trains will begin on 21 May.

Here’s the full list of trains:

Train Number	Route	Train Name
01016/15	Gorakhpur to Lokmanyatilak (T)	Kushinagar Express
01019/20	Mumbai CST to Bhubaneswar	Konarka Express
01061/62	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Darbhanga	Darbhanga Express
01071/72	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Varanasi	Kamayani Express
01093/94	Mumbai CST to Varanasi	Mahanagri Express
01139/40	Mumbai CST to Gadag	Express
01301/02	Mumbai CST to Ksr Bengaluru	Udyan Express
02156/55	H. Nizamuddin to Habibganj	Bhopal Express
02230/29	New Delhi to Lucknow Jn	Lucknow Mail
02296/95	Danapur to Ksr Bengaluru	Sanghmitra Express
02377/78	Sealdah to New Alipurduar	Padatik Express
02392/91	New Delhi to Rajgir	Shramjevi Express
02394/93	New Delhi to Rajendra Nagar	Sampoorn Kranti Express
02418/17	New Delhi to Prayagraj	Pragraj Expess
02420/19	New Delhi to Lucknow	Gomti Express
02407/08	ASR to NJP	Karambhum i Exp
02357/58	Amritsar to Kolkata	Amritsar Junction Kolkata Superfast Express
02452/51	New Delhi to Kanpur	Shram Shakti Express
02463/64	Jodhpur to Delhi S Rohilla	Samprak kranti
02477/78	Jaipur to Jodhpur	Jaipur to Jodhpur Express
02479/80	Bandra (T) to Jodhpur	Suryanagri Express
02533/34	Lucknow Jn to Mumbai CST	Pushpak Express
02555/56	Hisar to Gorakhpur	Gorakhdham Express
02560/59	New Delhi to Manduadih	Shivganga Express
02618/17	H. Nizamuddin to Ernakulam	Mangla Express
04009/10	Anand Vihar to Bapudham Motihari	Champaran Satyagrah Express
02629/30	New Delhi to Yesvantpur	KarnatakaSamprak kranti Express
02701/02	Mumbai CST to Hyderabad	Husain Sagar Express
02703/04	Howrah to Secunderabad	Falaknuma Express
02715/16	H. S. Nanded to Amritsar	Sachkhand Express
02724/23	New Delhi to Hyderabad	Telangana Express
02792/91	Danapur to Secunderabad	Danapur to Secunderabad Express
02801/02	Puri to New Delhi	Purushottam Express
02810/09	Howrah to Mumbai CST	HWH-Mumbai Mail
02833/34	Ahmedabad to Howrah	Ahmedabad to Howrah Express
02904/03	Amritsar to Mumbai Central	Golden Temple Mail
02916/15	Delhi to Ahmedabad	Ashram Express
02926/25	Amritsar to Bandra (T)	Paschim Express
02933/34	Mumbai Central to Ahmedabad	Karnavati Express
02963/64	H. Nizamuddin to Udaipur City	Mewar Express
08183/84	Tatanagar to Danapur	Tatanagar to Danapur Express
05484/83	Delhi to Alipurduar	Mahananda Express
06345/46	Mumbai (LTT) to Thiruvananthapuram Central	Netrvati Express
02805/06	Vishakapatnam to New Delhi	AP Express
02182/81	H. Nizamuddin to Jabalpur	H. Nizamuddin to Jabalpur Express
02418/17	New Delhi to Varanasi	Mahamana Express
02955/56	Mumbai Central to Jaipur	Mumbai Central to Jaipur Express
07201/02	Guntur to Secunderabad	Golconda Express
02793/94	Tirupati to Nizamabad	Rayalseema Express
09165/66	Ahmedabad to Darbhanga	Sabarmati Express
09167/68	Ahmedabad to Varanasi	Sabarmati Express
09045/46	Surat to Chhapra	Tapti Ganga Express
03201/02	Patna to Lokmanyatilak	Patna to Lokmanyatilak Express
02553/54	Saharsa to New Delhi	Vaishali Express
02307/08	Howrah to Jodhpu/Bikaner	Howrah to Jodhpu/Bikaner Express
02381/82	Howrah to New Delhi	Poorva Express
02303/04	Howrah to New Delhi	Poorva Express
02141/42	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Patliputra	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Patliputra Express
02557/58	Muzaffarpur to Anand Vihar	Sapt Kranti Express
05273/74	Raxaul to Anand Vihar	Satyagrah Express
02419/20	Anand Vihar to Ghazipur	Suhaildev Express
02433/34	Anand Vihar to Ghazipur	Anand Vihar to Ghazipur Express
09041/42	Bandra (T) to Ghazipur	Bandra (T) to Ghazipur Express
04673/74	Amritsar to Jaynagar	Shaheed Express
04649/50	Amritsar to Jaynagar	Saryu Yamuna Express
02541/42	Gorakhpur to Lokmanyatilak (T)	Gorakhpur to Lokmanyatilak (T) Express
05955/56	Dibrugarh to Delhi	Brahmputra Mail
02149/50	Pune to Danapur	Pune to Danapur Express
02947/48	Ahmedabad to Patna	Azimabad Express
05645/46	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Guwahati	Lokmanyatilak (T) to Guwahati Express
02727/28	Hyderabad to Visakhapatnam	Godavari Express
09083/84	Ahmedabad to Muzaffarpur – Via Surat	Ahmedabad to Muzaffarpur Express
09089/90	Ahmedabad to Gorakhpur – Via Surat	Ahmedabad to Gorakhpur Express
02245/12246	Howrah (1050) to Yasvantpur (1600)	Duronto Express
02201/22202	Sealdah (2000) to Puri (0435)	Duronto Express
02213/22214	Shalimar (2200) to Patna (0640)	Duronto Express
02283/12284	Ernakulam (2325) to Nizamuddin (1940)	Duronto Express
02285/12286	Secundarabad (1310) to Nizamuddin (1035)	Duronto Express
02073/74	Howrah Jn (1325) to Bhubaneswar (2020)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02023/24	Howrah Jn (1405) to Patna Jn (2245)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02365/66	Patna (0600) to Ranchi (1355)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02091/92	Dehradun (1545) to Kathgodam (2335)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02067/68	Guwahati (0630) to Jorhat Town (1320)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02053/54	Haridwar (1445) to Amritsar (2205)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02055/56	New Delhi (1520) to Dehradun (2110)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02057/58	New Delhi (1435) to Una Himachal (2210)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02065/66	Ajmer (0540) to Delhi Sarai Rohilla (1135)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02069/70	Raigarh (0620) to Gondia (1325)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02021/22	Howrah (0620) to Barbil (1305)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02075/76	Calicut (1345) to Trivendrum (2135)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02081/82	Kannur (0450) to Trivendrum (1425)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02079/80	Bengaluru (0600) to Hubli (1345)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02089/90	Yashwantpur (1730) to Shivamoga Town (2155)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02059/60	Kota (0555) to Nizamuddin (1230)	Jan Shatabdi Express
02061/62		Jan Shatabdi Express
09037/38	Bandra(T) to Gorakhpur	Avadh Express
09039/40	Bandra(T) to Muzaffarpur	Avadh Express
02565/66	Darbhanga to New Delhi	Bihar Sampark Kranti
02917/18	Ahmedabad to Nizamuddin	Gujarat Sampark Kranti
02779/80	Vasco da Gama to Nizamuddin	Goa Express

(Photo: ANI)

(Photo: ANI)

Railways Minister Piyush Goyal said, “Booking of train tickets will resume at around 1.7 lakh common service centres from on Friday, 22 May, across the country. Bookings will also resume at counters of different stations in the next 2-3 days. We are developing a protocol in this regard.”

He also said, “some states did not cooperate with us to run special trains for sending back migrant workers to their homes. I think there are around 40 lakh people who want to return to West Bengal but only 27 special trains have entered the state so far.”

The new guidelines released by Railways is as following:

• The trains shall run from 1 June and booking of all these trains will commence from 10 am on 21 May
• These will be fully reserved trains having both AC, non-AC classes; general coaches shall also have reserved seats for sitting
• Second seating (2S) fare shall be charged for general coaches being reserved; seat to all passengers
• Only online tickets allowed to be booked; advance reservation period shall be maximum 30 days for trains to be run from 1 June
• RAC, waitlist to be generated but waiting list ticket-holders not permitted to board trains to be run from 1 June

‘Tickets Booked Via Agents Not Accepted’

“No tickets will be booked across the reservation counter on any railway station. Booking of tickets through 'agents' — both IRCTC and railway — shall not be permitted,” Railway Minister Piyush Goya had earlier said.

Goyal had on Tuesday announced that Indian Railways will resume the services of 200 special non-airconditioned trains and bookings for them will start soon.

In a series of tweets, Goyal had said, “In a major relief to the migrant workers, 200 Shramik Special trains will run today. And in the coming days these services will be increased on a large scale.”

“Besides this, Indian Railways from 1 June will run 200 non-AC trains on timetable. Online bookings for the same will start soon,” he said.

“Provision for pre-paid meal booking, e-catering shall be disabled. However, IRCTC shall make provision for limited eatables and packaged drinking water on payment basis only in limited trains, having pantry car attached,” he added, adding passengers are encouraged to carry their own food and drinking water.

The Railways also said that only four categories of Divyangjan concession and 11 categories of patient concessions are permitted in these special trains.

Aarogya Setu app is mandatory for any passenger to travel on these 200 special trains.

The announcement came a week after the national transporter started running the 15 pairs of special air conditioned trains.

He also appealed the state governments to help the migrant workers and list their names and provide it to railways so that it can run more Shramik Special trains.

“Migrant workers are requested to stay at their locations, soon railways will transport them to their destination,” he said in another tweet.

The Indian Railways suspended the passenger, mail and express train services on 25 March amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the spread of novel coronavirus outbreak.

The national transporter has started to run the Shramik Special trains from 1 May to transport the stranded migrant workers, students, pilgrims and tourists.

Till date, the national transporter has operated a total of 1,595 Shramik Special trains from various states across the country and transported more than 21 lakh passengers.The railways also started to run the 15 pairs of Special AC trains to different parts of the country.

During the nationwide lockdown, railways has also suspended the booking of the passenger tickets until further orders.

(With inputs from IANS)