Bhubaneswar: On the demand of passengers for restoration of trains which were cancelled since COVID lockdown, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to restore the services of all Express trains except one under its jurisdiction.
Barring Bhubaneswar-Dhanbad Garib Rath Express, all the trains from ECoR jurisdiction have been resumed. Following are details of the trains that have been resumed and their timing:
22890/22889 Puri-Digha-Puri Express from Puri will leave at 2105hrs on Saturdays from 06.08.2022 & from Digha at 1725hrs on Sundays from 07.08.2022.
22810/22809 Visakhapatnam-Paradip-Visakhapatnam Express from Visakhapatnam will leave at 2345hrs on Sundays from 07.08.2022 & from Paradip at 2225hrs on Mondays from 08.08.2022.
18530/18529 Visakhapatnam-Durg-Visakhapatnam Express from Visakhapatnam will leave at 1655hrs from 13.08.2022 & from Durg at 1830hrs from 14.08.2022.
12278/12277 Puri-Howrah-Puri Shatabdi Express from Puri will leave at 0545hrs & from Howrah at 1415hrs from 02.10.2022.
The ECoR has also decided to run Cuttack-Gunupur-Cuttack Express as Passenger Special. As a result, Train Number 18443/18444 Cuttack-Gunupur-Cuttack Express has been revised to run as 08421/08422 Cuttack-Gunupur-Cuttack Passenger Special w.e.f. 05.08.2022 from Cuttack and w.e.f. 06.08.2022 from Gunupur.
08421 Cuttack-Gunupur Passenger Special from Cuttack will leave at 1730hrs towards Gunupur. In the return direction, 08422 Gunupur-Cuttack Passenger Special from Gunupur will leave at 0245hrs towards Cuttack.
The facility of AC-3 Tier coach has been made in Bhubaneswar-Rourkela-Bhubaneswar Inter City and Howrah-Titilagarh/Kantabanji-Howrah Ispat Express from August 15.
12871/12872 Howrah-Titlagarh-Howrah Ispat Express from Howrah w.e.f. 15.08.2022 & from Titlagarh w.e.f. 16.08.2022 will be augmented with one AC-3 Tier coach.
22861/22862 Howrah-Kantabanji-Howrah Ispat Express from Howrah w.e.f. 16.08.2022 & from Kantabanji w.e.f. 17.08.2022 will be augmented with one AC-3 Tier coach.
