Bhubaneswar: The East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to provide facilities for journey with unreserved tickets in nine nominated trains under its jurisdiction.
The ECoR will run three pairs of Special trains as fully unreserved trains from November 1. Those trains are 08531/08532 Visakhapatnam-Palasa-Visakhapatnam Special; 08414/08413 Puri-Paradeep-Puri Special and 08423/08424 Bhubaneswar-Nayagarh Town-Bhubaneswar Special.
Besides, the ECoR has de-reserved three General Second Class reserved coaches and guard-cum-luggage van coaches in six trains from November 1. These coaches will be marked as Reserved and Unreserved at both ends near Guard cum Luggage Van coaches. Unreserved Mail/Express fare will be charged in these trains.
Following are the coach numbers of the six trains:
- D/7, 8 & 9 in 08301/08302 Sambalpur-Rayagada-Sambalpur Special
- D/5, 6 & 7 in 08569/08570 Bhubaneswar-Visakhapatnam-Bhubaneswar Inter City Special
- D/5, 6 & 7 in 08417/08418 Puri-Gunupur-Puri Special
- D/4, 5 & 6 in 08493/08494 Bhubaneswar-Balangir-Bhubaneswar Inter City Special
- D/8, 9 & 10 in 08507/08508 Visakhapatnam-Rayagada-Visakhapatnam Special
- D/7, 8 & 9 in 08433/08434 Bhubaneswar-Palasa-Bhubaneswar Special