Odisha

ECoR To Run Special Trains For Stranded Passengers From Odisha’s Puri Shalimar In West Bengal

By
OB Bureau

Bhubaneswar: In order to facilitate transportation of the passengers stranded for cancellation of trains due to cyclone Dana, the East Coast Railway (ECoR) has decided to run a special train from Puri in Odisha to Shalimar in West Bengal.

The ECoR, in a notification on Friday, said in view of cancellation of trains due to the cyclonic storm ‘Dana’, several trains were cancelled and many passengers could not reach their destinations. A special train would run from Puri for those passengers from West Bengal, it said.

08490 Puri-Shalimar Special will leave Puri at 11.20 pm on October 26 towards Shalimar. In the return direction, 08489 Shalimar-Puri Special will leave Shalimar at 10.50 am on October 27 towards Puri.

The special train will have stoppages at Malatipatapur, Khurda Road, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Jajpur, Keonjhar Road, Bhadrak, Balasore, Kharagpur, Santragachhi between Puri and Shalimar on both directions.

It will have one AC-2 Tier, three AC-3 Tier, 10 Sleeper Class, four Second Class Seatings, two guard-cum-Second Class seating for physically challenged passengers.

OB Bureau

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