Bhubaneswar: With a view to clearing the additional rush of passengers during summer, the Ministry of Railways is running special trains to different destinations of the country from and through East Coast Railway (ECoR) jurisdiction by creating additional berths.
Apart from the earlier notified 15 pairs of special trains from and through ECoR during summer, it has been planned to run one more pair of summer special train through ECoR, i.e. between Santragachhi and Chennai Central.
Earlier, ECoR had announced summer special trains like Bhubaneswar-Secunderabad-Bhubaneswar AC Summer Special, Shalimar-Puri-Shalimar Special, Kacheguda-Visakhapatnam-Kacheguda Special, Hyderabad-Srikakulam Special, Puri-Santragachhi (Howrah)-Puri Special, Puri-Habibganj-Puri Special, Sambalpur-Shalimar-Sambalpur Special, Raigarh-Sambalpur-Raigarh Special, Sambalpur-Banaswadi-Sambalpur Special, Puduchery-Santragachhi-Puduchery Special, Chennai-Santragachhi-Chennai Special, Kacheguda-Tata-Kacheguda Special, Visakhapatnam-Secunderabad-Visakhapatnam Special, Visakhapatnam-Tirupati-Visakhapatnam Special and Visakhapatnam-Kacheguda/Tirupati Special during Summer season.
Santragachhi (Howrah/Kolkata)-Chennai Central Special:
02841/02842 Santragachhi-Chennai Central-Santragachhi Summer Special from Santragachhi will leave at 12.40 pm on every Friday from April 12 to June 28, 2019. It will leave from Chennai Central at 6.20 pm on every Saturday from April 13 to June 29, 2019.
This Summer Special Train has four AC-2 Tiers, Five AC-3 Tiers, Four Sleeper Class and two guard cum luggage van in its composition, having stoppages at Kharagpur, Bhadrak, Jajpur-Keonjhar Road, Bhubaneswar, Khurda Road, Brahmapur, Vizianagaram, Duvvada, Rajahmundry, Vijayawada, Nellore and Gudur between Santragachhi and Chennai Central.
These apart, a number of special trains have been planned to ply between different destinations of the country through ECoR jurisdiction this summer and will also create more berths from ECoR.
Important regular trains have been planned to be augmented with additional coaches during the period by creating additional berths.
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