The article of passenger inconvenience in Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express was first reported by The Live Nagpur. In this story published on August 13, we showed the suffering of the passengers and the overcrowding in the sleeper coaches. taking cognizance of this story, Central Railway has given big relief to the passengers.
Central Railway has increased four sleeper coaches in Duronto Express. After this decision, the number of sleeper coaches in the train has increased to six. At the same time, four bogies of third AC have been reduced.
It is to be known that earlier there used to be six sleeper coaches in Duronto, but in the month of July, the Railways reduced four bogies and replaced them with AC coaches, After which only two coaches were left in the train non AC. at the same time, the number of third AC increased from 11 to 15. Due to this decision of the Railways, the passengers were facing great difficulties.
Due to less number of bogies Non-availability of seats and increase in the number of waiting tickets, passengers have to sit on floor and travel.
Railways had replaced sleeper coaches with third AC coaches in Duronto with a view to increase their earnings, but they did not get the expected result. On one side where there was a crowd of passengers due to less sleeper coaches. Whereas such coaches were going with only a few passengers. In view of this, there was a demand by the passengers to increase the number of sleeper coaches in the train.
12289/12290 CSMT-NAGPUR Duronto express-
Train composition will be changed from 22/11/2023-
(Total 23 coaches will remain same).
A) Earlier composition- 23 coaches-
15 – 3A coaches
3 – 2A coaches
1 -1A coach
2 -sleeper coaches
2 -powercars
B) New composition- 23 coaches-
11 -3A coaches
3 -2A coaches
1 -1A coach
6 -sleeper coaches
2 -power cars
Summary-
3A coaches reduced from 15 to 11 coaches.
Sleeper coaches increased from 2 to 6 coaches.
Date of change of composition is kept from 22/11/2023 (22 November) since till that date advance reservation booking is done by passengers, so its composition can not be changed till that period.